What kind of person targets children for mass murder? A neo-Nazi by name of Michail Chkhikvishvili, that’s who.

The would-be mass child murderer plotted to hand out candy laced with poison to Jewish children in Brooklyn on New Year’s Eve, dressed up as Santa Claus.

He never got to carry out his plot — but it wouldn’t have worked anyway. New Year’s Eve? Santa Claus? Candy that’s probably not kosher? The Jewish kids in Brooklyn, the visibly Jewish ones, are the very ones who would have skirted around him on their way home from cheder (Orthodox Jewish primary school for boys). As President Trump might say, Chkhikvishvili must be “a very low IQ individual.”

Chkhikvishvili belonged to a radical neo-Nazi group called Maniac Murder Cult. The 22-year-old encouraged others online to carry out hate crimes as well, not just against Jews but against racial minorities and other groups, going so far as to write and disseminate a pamphlet he titled “Hater’s Handbook.” The handbook calls for attacks on schools, bombings, mass murder and poisoning.

Prosecutors said that he incited an attack here in the United States and also abroad, in Turkey. Chkhikvishvili, who was extradited from Moldova, pleaded guilty in November to soliciting hate crimes and distributing bomb-making and ricin instructions.

The Georgian national, who is known by the nickname “Commander Butcher,” was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in federal prison for his poison candy plot.

New York officials issued statements condemning the bizarre failed murderer.

“The defendant is a hate-mongering menace who intended to hurt and kill children in the Jewish community and in other minority communities in New York City,” stated Joseph Nocella Jr., U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

“As a leader of the white supremacist group ‘Maniac Murder Cult,’ this defendant concocted hate-fueled, mass-casualty plans and inspired others to commit attacks based on his vile rhetoric,” said NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

“This violent extremist’s intentions were clear: harm and kill as many Jews and racial groups as possible, but thanks to the work of our NYPD investigators, along with the FBI and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, he is now off our streets and being held accountable for his hateful crimes,” she added.

But the basic sentiment among Jews is this: Thank God for stupid enemies.