When facts are stranger than fiction, pundits will say, “You can’t make this stuff up.” But actually, you can make this stuff up — that turns out to be the Left’s modus operandi.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a malignant organization that smears decent conservatives, has been caught red-handed — le mot juste — financing the Ku Klux Klan and other extremists to stoke racist activities. It then fraudulently used the outrages it ginned up to con donors out of money to keep its “anti-racism” fight going. Nothing more closely follows the classic trajectory of a movement declining into a business and ending up as a racket.