lionize

His role in the impeachment lionized him among fellow Democrats, demonized him among Republicans and seeded his campaign for the Senate.

It's nice for people to support you, don't get me wrong, but we can't lionize people being in prison.

Things get messy when we start lionizing anyone, perhaps especially young men who were just good at playing a child’s game.

The brief, but high-energy moment marked Newsom’s only official speaking role at the four-day political event, where Democrats gathered to praise President Biden as the party’s past and lionize Harris as its future.

This particular example isn’t mentioned in the book, though, which focuses instead on the broad idea of service and lionizes the show’s cast members for their various social and political activism.