I’d like to think it was a dare that prompted veteran Washington Post reporter Paul Schwartzman to include Nick Fuentes, the infamous Neo-Nazi sympathizer, in his story (5/22/26) on DC mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George.

The lefty candidate has no known ties to the far-right Fuentes, who lives some 700 miles away in Illinois. Yet there Fuentes was in Schwartzman’s story, alongside three other controversial figures…and the word “terrorist.”

This wasn’t the result of a dare, however. The truth is more mundane: This is just what the Post does in close DC mayoral elections, associating the candidate it wants to lose with extremists and corruption, facts be damned.