Kari Lake wants to downplay her stolen-election fever dreams. We can't let her

For Kari Lake, whose brand is bonkers—as in, bonkers is her brand—stepping back from the brink takes a level of skill and aplomb she simply doesn’t have.

The erstwhile news-reader, onetime gubernatorial candidate, and perpetual whiny loser is running to replace Kyrsten Sinema in the U.S. Senate. It appears Lake now wants Arizonans to ignore her conspiracy-peddling past—a past that suggests the chip George Soros implanted in her head eventually synced with her Dell desktop and has been alternately running Frogger and Flying Toasters for decades now.

In a Monday interview with Phoenix radio station KTAR, Lake claimed she doesn’t know who stole the election that she’s confidently stated innumerable times was definitely stolen. Lake also insisted that she prefers to look forward, even though her previous backward-looking—to Donald Trump’s 2020 loss and her own in 2022—has consistently sown chaos and undermined faith in our elections.