Will The Real Hate Group Please Stand Up
I & I Editorial Board
April 28, 2026
“The scurrilous left-wing group had to pay for racism to meet demand,” Dan McLaughlin, National ReviewRevelations that the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center had been funding “hard right” extremist groups raise an important question beyond whether or not it was defrauding donors.
The question is: If right-wing hate is so prevalent in America, why does the left have to fund it?
We’re still learning what it is, exactly, that the SPLC has been up to, but what we’ve learned so far is pretty damning. The group — whose “hate map” holds tremendous sway with the press, politicians, and corporate America — was apparently raising money on the promise that it would stamp out hate groups, then use some of that money to fund the worst of the worst hate groups.
Townhall columnist Kurt Schlichter hit the nail on the head with this post on X:
If you’re not clear on what’s going on with this SPLC thing, the federal prosecutors believe that they can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the SPLC was, among other things, funding the various organizations that it then cited to justify its own fundraising.
In other words, it’s accused of funding white supremacist groups, and then pointing to these white supremacist groups to get people to give it money. That’s not ‘paying informants.’ That’s a massive fraud.
As we pointed out in this space, fraud is a feature, not a bug, of today’s Democratic party.
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