" In the video, Scout is visible playing with the brown dog, as the caption says. But even this fact check misses the larger weirdness here: Grange is saying that the governor would fake having a pet dog. That lie is bizarre and bordering on psychotic. But it's exactly what Arendt warns readers to look out for in fascist propaganda, which assumes an audience "ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd.""
https://www.salon.com/2024/08/29/the-tragedy-of-magas-conspiracy-theory-about-tim-walzs-fake-dog/
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