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How many scandals can beset a main get together Senate candidate earlier than the get together jettisons her or him? How excessive can such a candidate change into earlier than she or he is dumped?
If you’re half of the Democrat get together equipment in Maine, the reply appears to be that nothing is too excessive. Nothing is simply too scandalous.
By this level, everybody has heard the sordid tales of Graham Platner. The allegations that he twisted an ex’s arm and yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after an argument (he has denied this). The admittance of sexting ladies shortly after getting married. The mocking of Purple Heart recipients. Calling military troopers fats, lazy trash, and seemingly wishing their death. Slandering rural Americans as racist and silly, and blacks, as a result of they “don’t tip.” The porta-john masturbation cringe musings and a lot more.
For Maine’s Democratic Party, no scandal appears to be too excessive with Graham Platner. AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty
Candidate Platner writes off all these personal misgivings as trivial foibles and says it’s his politics that depend. The senseless groupthink Democrats fall proper into line. “Maybe we focus on the issues facing the American people,” squirmed his patron saint, Sen. Bernie Sanders.
But the true obscenity of Graham Platner is just not his personal misdeeds. Rather, it’s his politics.
He has brazenly embraced communism, which slaughtered 100 million people within the twentieth century whereas oppressing and impoverishing many more. He sported a tattoo like those worn by Hitler’s SS at death camps that killed 6 million Jews within the Holocaust.
Sleepwalking Democrats have leveled fees of fascism so habitually, in such zombie-like fashion, that they don’t even acknowledge actual Nazism when of their midst.
Platner’s shirtless profile image on a relationship app. Obtained by NY Post
In short, Platner is an element of the New Wave left, making common trigger with extremists, socialists, and Islamists. It sports activities an empty kind of political narcissism, the con job of a Robin Hood motion pretending to rescue us from faux oppression eventualities. This so it might moralize its manner into workplace on a platform of failed concepts that construct nothing different than race and class resentments and authorities dependency. The substance of civilizational failure.
This new left appears to detest Western exceptionalism — an exceptionalism that has enriched and liberated billions of people, more than any civilization ever. Even our poorest immediately are wealthier than over 90% of the remainder of the world.
Graham Platner would have been dismissed as unacceptable within the Democratic Party simply a decade in the past. So what does his embrace inform us about modern-day Democrats and the place they’re headed?
Chuck Schumer talking at a press convention. Getty Images
This tells us that the get together has a weak bench. It’s no secret that working-class voters — the core base for Democrats because the New Deal — are abandoning Democrats, as are many different teams. Seven in 10 voters assume the get together is simply too excessive and out of contact.
To rebuild, the get together might go back to the middle or lunge to the socialist left. Led by its activist class, it’s selecting the latter.
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But only a few on the socialist left have ever constructed a business, or anything for that matter. AOC was a bartender earlier than her election to Congress in 2018.
Bernie Sanders is a profession politician, suckling on the taxpayer teat almost all his profession. To paraphrase Thomas Sowell, the far left is aware of nothing about creating prosperity; its leaders simply assume that it by some means exists and that the one attention-grabbing query is how to redistribute it.
Candidate for U.S. Senate Graham Platner, of Maine, gestures during a “Fighting Oligarchy” marketing campaign rally with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in Portland, Maine, on May 25, 2026. REUTERS
This means the New Wave Democrat motion doesn’t actually know a lot about building via discovery, innovation, and growth — the exhausting stuff that grows the financial pie and secures our future. Many on the left are like nepo-babies, realizing solely how to take from authorities payrolls, government-funded NGOs, and George Soros-like ideological philanthropy.
First, because of this the new breed Democratic bench will likely be a thinner one, attracting novices, activists, and extremists just like the terrorist-linked Adam Hamawy, who received the Democratic nomination in New Jersey with the backing of Democratic socialists in Congress. This toxicity will deter more critical candidates.
Second, the Platner conundrum additionally tells us this New Wave Democrat is myopic. Democrats throughout the nation will likely be badgered all fall with questions on supporting the Nazi-tattooed, Hamas-supporting, self-described communist. When they attempt to dodge, as Sen. Chris Murphy clumsily did final Sunday, they are going to be seen as weak, cowardly, and out of contact by normie voters.
Platner broke his silence this week on yet one more scandal, this one involving sexually suggestive messages he despatched to quite a few ladies on a relationship app. NEWS CENTER Maine
Third, Platner conveys that Democrats are situational, insincere moralists, whose collective heads exploded at each one of Trump’s transgressions however who stared at their shoelaces when it got here to at least one of their own.
Finally, the Platner phenomenon tells us of the cowardice of the get together’s moderates. When I labored years in the past on the House Judiciary Committee alongside Senator Schumer, then a proud centrist, he would at all times speak concerning the significance of saying “no” to the exhausting left. Who would have thought that years later he can be so intimidated by online activists that he would coddle a candidate cheering the genocidal Hamas immediately.
Ultimately, it’s this cowardice of get together leaders who know higher that’s resulting in the get together’s decadent decline.
Julian Epstein has served as chief counsel for the House Judiciary Democrats and workers director of the House Oversight Committee.
