They're not humoring him, they're humoring him and his armed, radicalized base. By explicitly radicalizing them further, with lies! https://twitter.com/amyargetsinger/status/1325988818550358016
Like, I'm not a big fan of the "imagine if another country..." construction, but read this lede paragraph as if the country and names were blank and tell me it doesn't sound like every authoritarian junta from Monrovia to Minsk
I wrote this, about Trump calling the election rigged, *in August* and here we are now https://newrepublic.com/article/158962/trump-postal-service-mail-ballots-dumbest-authoritarian-world
And the following week, I wrote this about the RNC, which didn't appeal to most Americans, but appeals to enough Americans that the GOP is now in for a penny, in for a pound on Trump-Juche https://newrepublic.com/article/159065/republican-convention-trump-fear-hate
Republicans Invite America to Play the “Dear Leader” Lottery

The RNC opened with two themes: Existence is under attack from radical Democrats, and adoring Donald Trump is the only hope.

https://newrepublic.com/article/159065/republican-convention-trump-fear-hate
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