Hillary Clinton’s campaign has published a parody of Vox, the liberal news site for young adults. Headline: “Donald Trump, Pepe the Frog, and White Supremacists: An Explainer.” Subheadline: “That cartoon frog is more sinister than you might realize.”

It seems that both Trump adviser Roger Stone and scion Donald Trump Jr. tweeted a “meme” (a picture with a slogan) the other day. It depicts a row of gun-toting, black-clad male bodies with faces superimposed over them. They are labeled THE DEPLORABLES. Front and center is Donald Trump père; to his immediate right is the face of Pepe, drawn with a Trumplike mop of yellow hair.

“Please explain,” writes Elizabeth Chan of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, in the voice of an imaginary questioner. And does she ever:

Here’s the short version: Pepe is a cartoon frog who began his internet life as an innocent meme enjoyed by teenagers and pop stars alike.

But in recent months, Pepe’s been almost entirely co-opted by the white supremacists who call themselves the “alt-right.” They’ve decided to take back Pepe by adding swastikas and other symbols of anti-semitism and white supremacy.

“We basically mixed Pepe in with Nazi propaganda, etc. We built that association,” one prominent white supremacist told the

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That Beast story, which ran in May, turns out to be “more or less a complete troll job,” according to an extensive investigation by Jonah Bennett of the Daily Caller. Its main victim was author Olivia Nuzzi—but even she didn’t get trolled as ridiculously as Mrs. Clinton’s campaign did.

The “prominent white supremacist” Chan describes is one “Jared Taylor Swift,” whom even Nuzzi knew better than to describe as prominent. She called him “an anonymous white nationalist who claims to be 19 years old and in school someplace on the West Coast.” (He told Bennett those were lies; he is neither 19 nor on the West Coast.) There is a white-nationalist author named Jared Taylor. We wouldn’t describe him as “prominent,” but we suppose one could argue that in the small pond of white nationalism, he is a big frog. Taylor Swift, a 26-year-old pop star, definitely is prominent.