The dangers of subtlety in politics

The Lincoln Project, a political action committee composed of battle-tested Republican consultants, who now specialize in trying to defeat Republican candidates, carried out one of the most sloppily executed public relations stunts in political history.
Anti-Trump Republican Lincoln Project demonstrators, pictured in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Oct. 29, dressed up as Unite the Right rallygoers with tiki torches outside a campaign event for Republican candidate for Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin.
OAKVILLE, ONT.—It’s hard to believe that a group of experienced political consultants could ever act like a bunch of rank amateurs. But such a thing actually happened in the recent Virginia state election. I’m talking about how a group called The Lincoln Project (a political action committee...

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