Democrats’ swoon for Jew-hater Graham Platner – Latest News
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck . . . properly, you realize the saying.
Today, if a candidate walks and talks like an obsessive Jew-hater, Democrats swoon.
And in Maine, Graham Platner is making an total political marketing campaign out of his waddle and quack.
First, we discovered that the democratic socialist Platner, who’s competing with Gov. Janet Mills within the Democrats’ US Senate main, had a giant Nazi tattoo — an SS Totenkopf — emblazoned on his chest.
When the revelation set off a public furor, Platner insisted he’d had no concept what the notorious grinning cranium image meant, and that the one “disgusting” side of the controversy was the insinuation he knew in any other case.
Yet Platner has spent the months since proving these “disgusting” doubters proper, with a stream of senseless anti-Israel rhetoric and overtly antisemitic associations.
In January, he advised Nate Cornacchia, a conspiracy theorist fond of blaming the assassinations of JFK and Charlie Kirk on the tiny nation on the japanese edge of the Mediterranean, that he was a “longtime fan” as the 2 sat down for an hour-long podcast interview.
A couple of weeks later, Platner retweeted Stew Peters, the odious radio host who has characterised Judaism as a “death cult” and advocated a “final solution” to the issue posed by American Jews’ existence.
Democrats are undeterred.
RealClearPolitics’ polling average pegs Platner because the heavy favourite towards Mills — and the celebration’s institution is circling the wagons.
Jon Favreau of the influential “Pod Save America” defended Platner by noting that he not too long ago wore an “Anti-Fascist Knitting Club t-shirt” and favors transgender radicalism in public colleges.
“If he’s a Nazi, he’s really f–king bad at it,” argued Favreau, profanity substituting for coherence.
Last week, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) was so moved by Platner’s plight that he noticed match to endorse him, describing the candidate as a “fighter” prepared to stand up to euphemistic “special interests.”
Platner is comfortable to be more particular.
Mills, he defined in a single advert, “has already been endorsed by AIPAC — an endorsement I will never get. Because what is happening right now in Gaza is a genocide.”
In different adverts he asks, “Why are we funding Netanyahu’s genocide in Palestine?”
The man is aware of what his base desires: a laundered model of the world’s oldest hatred.
His success is a symptom of a bigger illness.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Vice President Kamala Harris — the 2 prime contenders for their celebration’s subsequent presidential nomination — have each been courting its antisemitic wing.
Harris threw her help behind Mayor Zohran Mamdani and entertained the “Gaza genocide” libel final yr.
She’s additionally made an intraparty foil out of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, whom she and her workers peppered with weird, Jew-baiting questions during her ill-fated 2024 veepstakes.
For his half, Newsom threw Israel beneath the bus during a latest look alongside Favreau and his “Pod” co-host, Tommy Vietor.
“For two years they haven’t even been able to solve the Hamas question in Israel,” Newsom remarked in a single ignorant second, earlier than all however calling for the top to army help for the United States’ best accomplice not simply within the Middle East, however the world over.
Now he’s planning an look alongside Hasan Piker, the vile podcaster who has celebrated each the 9/11 and Oct. 7 terror assaults.
What’s actually terrifying in regards to the Democrats’ unconditional give up to those obsessives is its utter cravenness.
Both Harris and Newsom had beforehand counted themselves amongst Israel’s supporters.
The swap is motivated not by conviction, however by a perception that they’ll experience the new wave of Jew hatred into the White House.
The distinction between their self-serving cowardice on this subject and the ethical readability President Donald Trump has demonstrated is stark.
Trump has unceremoniously expelled right-wing antisemites (Tucker Carlson) and their apologists (Megyn Kelly) from his motion, even because the blushing Pod bros welcome Carlson into theirs like starstruck schoolgirls.
“Tucker has lost his way,” Trump shrugged final week. “He’s not MAGA.”
The president has neither the time nor the endurance for such witless wickedness.
He and Netanyahu are too busy bringing a shared, longtime enemy to its knees in service to the Iranian, the Israeli, and most of all of the American people.
Meanwhile, groyper-adjacent candidates operating in GOP primaries, like Florida’s James Fishback, should not rising stars with institutional backing — they’re also-rans with no future other than hawking junk on their podcasts.
Trump and the Republicans have held the road towards this wave of hate; Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and different pro-Israel Democrats have wilted beneath fire.
Antisemites — of each varieties, the purposeful, blissfully naïve ones and the frothing-at-the-mouth sorts — are no longer on the perimeter of the Democratic coalition: They’re steering the ship.
And no person on the voyage is courageous enough to stage a mutiny.
Isaac Schorr is a senior editor at Mediaite.
