“What Paul’s partisans fail to apprehend is that the reason that coverage is not forthcoming for their hero is because Paul has made himself...”
Apprehend?
Typso ping.
ap·pre·hend [ap-ri-hend] verb (used with object) 1. to take into custody; arrest by legal warrant or authority: The police apprehended the burglars. 2. to grasp the meaning of; understand, especially intuitively; perceive. 3. to expect with anxiety, suspicion, or fear; anticipate: apprehending violence. verb (used without object) 4. to understand. 5. to be apprehensive, suspicious, or fearful; fear.
Not at all. When the cops apprehend a perp, what do they do? You might instead say that they “grabbed” him. You could (but probably wouldn’t) say they “grasped” him. In any case, it means to take hold of and subsequently maintain possession of something. So similarly it’s proper to say that one apprehends an idea or concept, because he grasps a hold of it and maintains his hold.
For example, people describe misunderstanding an idea or a set of facts as a “misapprehension”. Couldn’t very well misapprehend if it weren’t also possible to apprehend.