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The party of Me Too has proven its true face in the rolling Graham Platner scandal.
Now that a liberal lady has credibly accused him of rape, the rats have abandoned the sinking ship and the Democrat-endorsed US Senate candidate for Maine has dropped out.
But it’s “Me Too” late to avoid wasting face.
Conservatives all the time knew the left’s effort to say ethical superiority on issues of intercourse, race and beliefs had been play-acting however now it’s plain for even their most blinkered supporters.
The Democratic Party’s protection of Platner to the bitter finish in opposition to an avalanche of rape and sexual abuse allegations, to not point out his Nazi tattoo, has left them uncovered as hypocrites.
They weaponize ethical outrage in opposition to the proper whereas rationalizing far worse on their own facet.
They waved away stories of Platner’s points with girls once they first surfaced two months in the past in the kind of Reddit posts during which he downplayed sexual assault and steered victims had themselves guilty in the event that they bought drunk.
These disturbing feedback had been dismissed as outdated and irrelevant, and had been excused on the pretext that Platner was affected by PTSD, an insult to navy veterans who don’t deal with rape like a respectable spoil of masculinity.
In any case, Platner, 41, wrote the posts a decade in the past when he was outdated enough to know higher.
Sen. John Fetterman was the lone voice in the Democratic Party calling out Platner from the begin as a “creep” and “dirtbag.”
Fetterman dubbed him “P Hustle,” the identify Platner used on Kik, a grooming messaging app for underage children the place he despatched express messages for a decade, and as lately as final 12 months.
‘Good, decent man’?
When Platner was revealed to have cheated on his new spouse by sexting a minimum of six girls after getting married in 2023, Democrats stated he was “a good, decent man who’s struggled and grown.”
A month in the past, when The New York Times printed its soft-soap catch-and-kill story during which a number of ex-girlfriends euphemistically described “unsettling” encounters with Platner, together with bodily intimidation, Democrats again excused Platner by attacking a sufferer, conservative Lyndsey Fifield.
The Times selected to spotlight Fifield whereas burying the graphic rape declare of one other alleged sufferer, Jenny Racicot, a liberal ex-girlfriend of Platner who might need attracted more sympathy from their readers.
“Seems like a lot of nothing,” Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse stated of the Times’ piece.
“The only one who had anything to say that seemed unsettling was a woman who works for right-wing political operations.”
By design, as Fifield would later bitterly complain.
It was that betrayal by the Times that persuaded Racicot to come back ahead again this week to catalog her stunning rape declare.
She alleged to Politico and CNN that a drunken Platner entered her rural home uninvited one evening in 2021, grabbed her pelvis and forcibly raped her regardless of her repeated pleas for him to stop.
The vaunted Times — the media outlet that almost all energetically prosecuted the Me Too explosion in the final decade — has equally been uncovered for staggering hypocrisy.
Times reporter Jodi Kantor, who gained a Pulitzer for her Me Too takedowns, opined to CNN final month that Platner wasn’t guilty of Me Too infractions as a result of “they were mostly made in the context of consensual relationships.”
That’s OK then.
It was this sort of endorsement from the gatekeepers of left-wing morality that allowed Platner to remain in the race — till Wednesday.
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Warning was ignored
The Nazi tattoo he proudly sported for nearly 20 years ought to have been a warning, however Democrats cared solely about energy.
“My Totenkopf,” he would say in a German accent, and reportedly known as his penis “Mein Fuhrer.”
The hypocrisy from the similar people who accused Elon Musk of giving a “Nazi salute” when he innocently raised his arm on stage at a Trump rally, and who rail in opposition to Trump and MAGA Republicans as fascists, is astonishing.
“He’s my kind of man,” purred lefty Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Platner.
He sure is, and Democrats are saddled together with his legacy.
They are back the place they had been in June 2024, held hostage by a fatally flawed candidate who blew himself up at the eleventh hour after which demanded he select his own successor.
They haven’t realized a factor from the Biden household fiasco.
Again, they solely have themselves guilty for making an attempt to idiot the voters with a candidate who was not what he gave the impression to be.
Joe Biden was not trustworthy, modest or average.
He simply pretended to be.
He was not the grown-up in the room who would finish the chaos and unify the nation.
He was a divisive revolutionary with cognitive issues who flung open the border and wreaked injury on this nation that can take a era to recover from.
Similarly, Platner was not a working-class “oysterman” with a coronary heart of gold, however an alleged rapist, rabid Communist antisemite and confirmed pathological liar born with a silver spoon in his mouth who recklessly abused his privilege all his life.
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Like so many spoiled wealthy children, he by no means grew up.
His mom’s restaurant was reportedly his solely oyster buyer and his father paid for his home.
“Part of our thesis here is that people do not want their candidates grown in vats,” stated Daniel Moraff, the ex-Bernie Sanders staffer and socialist recruiter who “discovered” Platner.
Times columnist Michelle Goldberg admitted this week Platner’s appeal was “working-class aesthetics married to uncompromising lefty politics.”
A commie in a Mainer costume.
“This guy is an authentic man,” gushed Sen. Ruben Gallego.
No, Platner cosplayed authenticity together with his flannel shirts and gravelly voice.
He was a caricature of what the left thinks is an genuine white working-class man — a marginal improve from Tim Walz.
After demonizing masculinity for a decade, Democrats have pushed genuine males out of their party and may’t even acknowledge the actual factor anymore.
They insulted males and the working class by insisting that a individual of Platner’s low-character represented their values.
Hilariously, it didn’t work.
The white working-class voters who’re key to profitable the gentle blue state smelled a phony, regardless of his vow to combat “corporate greed” and the billionaire “oligarchy.”
Platner was trailing Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins by 23 factors with white non-college-educated voters, in line with a Times/Portland Press Herald/Siena ballot launched final week.
If he hadn’t dropped out and his polls hadn’t been tanking, likelihood is Dems would nonetheless circle the wagons round their Frankenstein monster.
They’d maintain their nostril and vote for the satan if the satan may beat Donald Trump.
That is their sole ethical calculus lately and the source of their party’s collapse.
Instead of coming up with different insurance policies for the betterment of the nation, they simply lazily lean into the Trump Derangement Syndrome they’ve stoked in their base for a decade.
It labored in 2020 once they tricked the voters with “Honest Joe” Biden, however like the Iranians with the Strait of Hormuz, it’s a trump card you’ll be able to solely play as soon as.
