Over the last few days, there have been a few major Dems speaking out against Graham Platner. Today, the Atlantic released a piece saying the Dems could do better than Platner.
Democrats Can Do Better Than Graham Platner - The Atlantic https://t.co/xObQ28u5Fa
— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) May 30, 2026
For decades, Nazism and the anti-Semitism underlying it have marked zero on the Kelvin scale of villainy—the metric against which all other forms of evil are compared. This is so well understood that we now have cultural phenomena such as Godwin’s Law, the theory that online debates inevitably lead to Nazi comparisons, and the “everything I don’t like is Hitler” meme. But their existence proves the point: If one wishes to say that something is irredeemably bad, Nazis are the benchmark, the absolute.
Yet recently this understanding seems to have grown less universal. Nazi symbolism and more modern versions of the ancient conspiracy theories behind this intolerable ideology have found a degree of toleration within American political movements desperate for shortsighted victories. The underlying hatred that, among other things, motivated the killing of more than a third of all the Jews on the planet eight decades ago is viewed no longer as unacceptable, but rather somewhere on a scale of “problematic” issues that can be either explained away or ignored. The most recent case is that of Graham Platner, the 41-year-old Democrat who is hoping to unseat Senator Susan Collins in Maine. Platner has a unique personal story, having reinvented himself from high-born prep-school student to blue-collar oyster farmer, and from willing Marine who talked about wanting to go to war to kill people (and who later worked for a military contractor) to a victim of Collins’s vote to authorize the Iraq War. Although Platner is by no means the first politician to reshape his personal narrative during a campaign, he is likely the first to attempt an innocent explanation for having had, for 18 years, a tattoo of a Totenkopf, the insignia of the Schutzstaffel, or SS—the most dedicated and fanatical component of the Third Reich, whose members were the architects and executioners of the Final Solution.
Obviously, The Atlantic would never publish anything without the express approval of the DNC, so it gives a peek at how the Democrat Party is feeling about adding Platner to their elected ranks. Clearly, they see it as very problematic.
This is getting very curious. These influential voices are coming out on this point VERY LATE. The primary is June 9.
— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) May 30, 2026
I do not think anything will happen in advance of the primary, and Platner is going to win with no real opponent still in the race.
BUT, under Maine law, if… https://t.co/SSiVPBrqQp
Shipwreckedcrew has a sneaking suspicion that something bigger is at play behind the scenes. There’s no smoking-gun evidence for his theory—yet—but it fits the pattern uncomfortably well. Especially after the DNC sidelined Biden and installed Kamala Harris as the nominee with zero votes from actual Democrat primary voters.
LOL. Those Democrats love democracy, don’t they! As much as I don’t like Platner, this is anti-democratic. Oh, but they’re democracy incarnate, its sole arbiter! We all know when they say democracy, they mean leftist power. https://t.co/BuhaIkSiRG
— Jawndhi (@jawndhi) May 30, 2026
The worst part is they’re only trying to dump him now because they’re panicking over internal polls — his dismal electability and the very real risk that his presence on the ballot would tank other Democratic races in states where voters have far less tolerance for Nazis than Maine does.
The last thing on Earth we should be encouraging out of the current DNC is rigging yet ANOTHER primary election to a favored outcome. Gotta end that bad habit at some point, and there's no time like the present.
— The Gringo Lawyer (@gringoathome) May 30, 2026
It didn’t work with Kamala, and it won’t work this time either. They should accept Platner’s loss, learn from it, and focus on doing better next time — instead of trying to force a losing hand.
Editor’s Note: Hollywood, academia, and liberal elites are out of touch with the average American.
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