This comment is not directed at you. You are not part of the mainstream media. But there is NO excuse for mainstream media to be interviewing this guy or even covering him. There is no excuse for Anne Applebaum to interview him. There is no excuse for giving him a sounding board.

This was part of the reason Trump won the primaries. He got free almost daily airtime from Joe Scarborough, who later turned on him but never apologized to the country for HIS crime.