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In Scooby-Doo episodes, there is a classic moment where the gang unmasks the criminal they have caught, only to discover it is the least likely person it could be. As if, say, one tore the white hood off of a Klan member, only to find the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) lurking underneath.

In this case, cartoon art really does imitate real life.

For nearly a decade now, conservatives have been fuming over the 2017 "Charlottesville hoax," in which the news media took President Donald Trump’s rather bland statement that there were "fine people on both sides" of the Confederate statue debate, and, by lying, morphed it into support for White supremacy.

Trump, it turns out, was never praising the racists behind the specifically odious Unite the Right rally .…