After Glenn Youngkin’s victory has officially sunk in, Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt is looking back on how at all went so wrong for Democrats. Schmidt recently attacked the Lincoln Project for its “recklessly stupid” idea to send a small group of protestors posing as White supremacists to a campaign event. The stunt was marked as downright pathetic after the Lincoln Project took credit in hopes of garnering more support for Democrat candidate Terry McAuliffe.

Fox News reports:

Schmidt, who resigned from the disgraced left-wing PAC’s board in February amid myriad scandals but didn’t separate himself entirely, told longtime Democratic operative Robert Shrum he was infuriated. He distanced himself from the stunt, claiming to have been largely uninvolved with the group since January.

“I learned about it on the news like everybody else and had no involvement with it and have not been involved operationally, strategically at all in the Virginia campaign or really in the day-to-day with the Lincoln Project since the Georgia special elections,” he said. “On the 1-to-10 scale of being very angry, internally I clocked in at about a 57, and I expressed my opinions internally.”

“I thought the action was recklessly stupid, it was dishonest and cheap. It is exactly the wrong way to approach the fight against a real fascist movement, against extremist elements,” he said. “It showed appalling judgment by the day-to-day leadership, management of the Lincoln Project. Somebody could have gotten beat up … could have incited violence.”

In the latest misstep for the disgraced PAC, the Lincoln Project copped to sending five tiki-torch-wielding people – one of them a Black man – to a campaign event in Charlottesville on Oct. 29 wearing white shirts and ballcaps, all claiming to be Youngkin supporters. The imagery brought back memories of the horrific events in the city in 2017, when violent clashes around a “Unite The Right” rally that included White supremacists culminated in the killing of a young woman.

Following the stunt, the Charlottesville city council slammed the Lincoln Project for the tone-deaf move.

“Tiki torches wielded by young men in white polo shirts and khakis mean one thing in Charlottesville – we are under attack,” the council wrote. “For many of our residents who confronted the Nazis and white supremacists on our streets … seeing your operatives in white polo shirts and khakis carrying (even unlit) tiki torches caused a PTSD flashback to those traumatic days.”