Platner’s Senate race exit: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Graham Platner drops out of the Maine Senate race within the wake of recent sex-abuse accusations.
Graham Platner suspending his bid for the US Senate needs to be a aid and a warning to all Americans (“Plat out of Maine race,” July 9).
Platner is a most cancers that appears to be spreading within the Democratic Party. The label “Democratic Socialism” needs to be rebranded to “Democratic sociopaths.” One definition of a sociopath is beneficial right here: They typically disregard the rights and emotions of others, lack empathy and regret, and sometimes manipulate or deceive others for personal gain.
Martin Garfinkle
Staten Island
Platner could also be a “repugnant dirtbag,” however is he actually more repugnant or a larger dirtbag than the president who brags about grabbing ladies’s genitals, lies about elections, pardoned Jan. 6 criminals, protects Epstein pedophiles, trashes our allies, praises our enemies, was discovered liable within the E. Jean Carroll case, misused charitable funds, paid off a porn star and far more?
Matt Dwyer
Naples, Fla.
What has the Democratic Party come to? It was obvious from the outset that Platner was not a respectable human being. Yet Sens. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer and Cory Booker and Rep. Ro Khanna all endorsed him.
The Democratic Party no longer represents “We the People.” Instead, it’s centered on pursuing an agenda that, for my part, would undermine Western civilization as we all know it.
Jim Millar
Fitzwilliam, NH
The Post’s editorial chronicling Democrats’ unhappy journey on the Platner roller-coaster might be cut down to a fragment buried within the center of the piece: “Democrats have been so wrapped up in their Trump hate, they failed to . . .” Fill within the clean (“Dems’ Moral Bankruptcy,” July 8).
Trump has performed them so effectively that they’re constantly on the back foot, so frazzled that they’re unable to prepare efficient opposition to his insurance policies.
Warren Nitti
Edgewater, NJ
This Platner scenario just isn’t new. When former Gov. Andrew Cuomo was going through public outcry over 16,000 senior residents dying, Democrats shortly switched to sexual predator allegations.
The purpose is straightforward: It does much less harm to the celebration, as the main focus is on the morality of the person, relatively than the political choices of a Democrat. Eric Swalwell shared the identical destiny.
Robert Sanfilippo
N. Bellmore
The Issue: Ex-Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel calling for an finish to America’s assist of Israel.
Your editorial on Rahm Emanuel confirms that politicians speak manner an excessive amount of, are sometimes unsuitable and assume no matter they are saying is prescient (“Rahm Emanuel Sells Out Israel,” July 9).
Silence has its place within the public sq., however pols really feel compelled to contribute to the discourse no matter how silly their message.
Emanuel confirmed off his ridiculous line of parity on Middle East relations by excoriating Israel on a number of issues, regardless of being unsuitable on all counts.
Rich Klitzberg
Princeton, NJ
Emanuel needs to reinforce his electoral possibilities by becoming a member of the refrain of Israel-bashers. My father — a survivor of the Holocaust from a giant prolonged household — would inform him that such pandering gained’t work in any respect.
When the haters go after the Jews, they’re coming for Emanuel, Brad Lander and Bernie Sanders together with the remainder of us.
Jack Weinberg
Manhattan
With President Trump on the helm, assisted by Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, we don’t need a former Chicago mayor’s advice on international relations.
Allen Schwartz
Manhattan
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