Let's talk facts:
(1) If a voter sees a candidate dressed up in a Nazi uniform, he will not wait for an explanation or an excuse. He will move on in 90% of cases. That's reality.
(2) Most people think that reenactors are weird. This is because so many of them are. I am not a reenactor, but I am a Friend of the National Military Park at Gettysburg and I know hundreds of reenactors. They're a lovable but eccentric bunch.
(3) This reenactment group is far more sinister than the usual harmless reenactment group. Iott's group specializes in reenacting warfare on the Russian front by dressing as members of the SS. Most American WWII reenactors reenact engagements in which American troops were involved, like the Bulge. The bad guys normally dress in German Army uniforms, not SS uniforms with elaborate Nazi insignia. Iott's group calls itself "Wiking" the name of an SS unit and they reenact engagements in which no US troops were involved. Reenactors do not name their groups after the people they perceive as bad guys, but the people that they perceive as good guys. The more that is learned about this group, the more disturbing the details will be.
Your first point is duly noted. Given how some in our society are, some probably won’t look for an explanation. Thank you, Lamestream Media and Govt Public Schools.
The second point goes a little beyond what most people in our society think, unless they, like yourself, are personally acquainted with a reenactor. I don’t know reenactors; as far as I’m concerned, they are just actors to me and I don’t see actors as “weird”.
As far as your third point, perhaps. Like I said, I see this as just some dude who likes to reenact WWII history. Now, if he is as sinister as you say, that will come out and then toss the guy over.
I suspect that most reenactors are just harmless eccentrics. Nevertheless the only one I ever met turned out to be a pedophile sex offender.