As our own Just Mindy reported on Tuesday, New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg quickly posted a mea culpa about her support for Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner after Politico dropped its sexual assault bombshell. "I deeply regret that, impressed by Platner’s political charisma, I wrote that he was ‘nothing like the edgelord caricature I encountered online,’" she wrote, adding she hoped by the time people read her column, Platner would have dropped out.
Amanda Litman, president of Run for Something, an effort to build a Democratic bench of young candidates, took from Goldberg's column the message, "Everyone made mistakes here."
Michelle Goldberg’s column today perfectly sums up the situation in Maine: Everyone made mistakes here. https://t.co/mNz8kfnjtX
— Amanda Litman (@amandalitman) July 7, 2026
uh, no - not everyone. dipshit https://t.co/YnvjPes5WH
— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) July 8, 2026
Everyone?
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 7, 2026
“Everyone”? Really?
— Lady L. North 💙❤️🏀 🏈 (@LadyLNorth) July 8, 2026
You do realize there are a whole bunch of us who immediately thought a Nazi tattoo was disqualifying for someone who wanted to be entrusted with a Senate seat. Or almost any other job.
No, leftist reporters covered up a rapist Nazi as he was up in the polls. That is not a mistake, it is a strategy. Have the spine to admit it.
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) July 8, 2026
The word "everyone" is doing some heavy lifting here. I certainly made no mistakes because I think people with Nazi SS tattoos who abuse women are bad people but y'all were all in on him. Shut your disingenuous mouth.
— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) July 8, 2026
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Not everyone. Liberal white women. Especially upper middle class and rich white women. He was your guy. The closest thing to testosterone you’ve come to in a long time.
— Denise (@neeceetx) July 8, 2026
Everyone? No.
— Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) July 8, 2026
No. I'm a Maine voter and I could see this guy was a disaster months ago.
— Peter Cook (@_Peter_Cook) July 8, 2026
Everyone?
— JWF (@JammieWF) July 8, 2026
Uh, no.
I didn’t.
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) July 8, 2026
I didn’t make mistakes
— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) July 8, 2026
No, not "everyone", just the hack media and hack Democrat talking heads
— Frank フランク (@richardrahl1086) July 8, 2026
Everyone? I mean I didn't make a mistake here. I generally think people Nazi tattoos who abuse women are bad. Who are you referring to?
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 8, 2026
Nope. We pegged this guy for the violent predator he is from the very start.
— Snarknado ⚓️ 🇺🇸 (@ZannSuz) July 8, 2026
Democrats in their quest for power chose to look the other way.
Sorry, not everyone made a mistake. A lot of people saw this coming a mile away. And some did what they could to stop it
— Marc Goldwein (@MarcGoldwein) July 8, 2026
Let’s also not treat all mistakes equal - tiny tactical errors, amoral strategic errors, ignorance, & criminal/antisocial behavior are not the same.
Everyone who ever backed Platner, the working class imposter, despite a Nazi tattoo and a tendency toward sexual assault. But not the rest of us.
— Kevin Cook (@yankeexpatriate) July 8, 2026
Are you fucking kidding me with this
— Allison Floyd (@AllisonRFloyd) July 8, 2026
Let's just agree that everyone made mistakes and just put this whole mess behind us. No, let's not. Maybe everyone Litman talks to, but not "everyone."
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