Yet another GOP candidate who denies supporting QAnon is caught on tape supporting QAnon

Once upon a time, a candidate who claimed her ideological opponents were harvesting baby parts as part of a sprawling worldwide satanic conspiracy would have been laughed out of the room—but no longer. In 2020, Kristina Karamo, who’s currently running for Michigan secretary of state with the backing of an actual former U.S. president (come on, you know which one), claimed just that. Because if you’re following the recipe for 1930s-style German fascism, you simply can’t leave out the blood libel, now can you?

Now, even if you don’t know who Karamo is, you likely do remember Melissa Carone, the MAGA “election fraud” witness who was so embarrassing that lifelong ethanol enthusiast Rudy Giuliani had to shush her during one of his infamous fake hearings. She’s part of this story, too. As is Satan. And the newly Brundlefly’d MAGA and QAnon movements. In other words, we’ve got a heapin’ helpin’ of spicy right-wing stew for you—except instead of beef or Beyond Meat, you get yards and yards of chewy tripe.