As one scandal after another befalls Graham Platner, national Democrats have closed ranks behind him. No doubt they are privately calculating whether they need to dump him, and if so, whether it can realistically be done. But in public, they are with Platner 100%.
With one exception: as in so many other instances, John Fetterman dissents:
“Every Democrat knows P-Hustle has Nazi ink, was Captain D–k-Pic on Kik, abusive towards women and slandered American soldiers online,” Fetterman told The Post Friday.
Members of his party are choosing instead “to suppress their gag reflex for the ‘greater good,’” he added, noting Platner’s upcoming Senate primary election on Tuesday, where the Maine candidate is expected to come out on top.
“P-Hustle?” Fetterman had responded when asked by reporters on Capitol Hill Thursday about the embattled Democratic candidate, who was recently revealed to have maintained an account by that name on the private messaging app Kik, which has been accused of enabling sexual predators and groomers.
“That’s what you’re calling him?” responded CBS News political correspondent Caitlin Huey-Burns.
“No…that’s how he described himself. That’s his name,” Fetterman deadpanned, before trolling MS Now: “You love P-Hustle? … Cause he’s awesome right? Was it the Nazi tattoo? Is it the insults and the Kik account?”
I think it was the Nazi tattoo that made Platner popular with the Democratic base. But voters may be cooling on him: the latest poll has him tied with incumbent Susan Collins, after having led her in all previous polling that I have seen.
Back to John Fetterman, perhaps the only voice of sanity in today’s Democratic Party. I think we are living through an era that resembles, in some ways, the years before the Civil War. Then, there was one great issue, slavery. Americans may have disagreed on a host of lesser issues, but if they were pro-slavery or anti-slavery, they were fundamentally aligned with others who shared that view. Similarly, our electorate today has divided into two groups: conservatives who love America and are trying to preserve her, and liberals who hate America and are trying to destroy her.
If you, like John Fetterman, are pro-America, you are on our team. We can sort out our disagreements later–marginal tax rates and the like. For now, in the battle that is raging, everyone who is for America is on our side.
