Nobody Was Supposed to Believe Those Virginia Dems with Tiki Torches Were Actually Nazis, or Something

Forget it, they're rolling

Ryan Grim at The Intercept claims to have seen documentation proving that those fake Nazis in front of Glenn Youngkin’s campaign bus last week weren’t connected to the Terry McAuliffe campaign. But Grim isn’t actually identifying the people who stood there in the rain with tiki torches. We’re just supposed to take his word for it. Sorry, but I don’t.

If some Republicans wearing black bloc showed up at a McAuliffe event and claimed to be Antifa rioters supporting him, we’d know all their names by now. We’d know their complete job history and anything else about them that could be weaponized. It would be presented as proof of the Republicans’ unquenchable perfidy.

But some professional Democrats pretended to be Nazis to try to throw an election? Ho-hum!

The Intercept also claims that the Lincoln Project really did organize the hoax — I’m still skeptical about that, but they’re definitely dumb enough to concoct something this disastrously self-defeating — but that it wasn’t meant to be a h…