I wrote about Maine Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner on May 31 in “A Platner to make you plotz.” At that time I contemplated that the Democrats would send Platner out to pasture with a substitute after he secured the Democratic nomination, as he went on to do.
Platner has now been abandoned by his Democrat friends as a political inconvenience. He is guilty of faults of the traditional kind including the physical exploitation of women:
Platner, who has said victims of sexual assault should “just take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f—ed up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to,” initially faced allegations of abuse in a New York Times article published last month. The piece focused on the allegations of another ex-girlfriend, Lyndsey Fifield, who said Platner “twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn’t get out.”
He was able to ride out the controversy until yesterday’s well-timed depth charge in Politico. This story involved another ex-girlfriend — a “progressive” rather than a Republican.
Politico is a Democrat outlet. The Democrats want Platner to be gone.
Will Platner withdraw in compliance with the wishes of his former Democrat friends and supporters? Platner has announced that he is in Jack Benny mode. He’s thinking it over. In other words, Platner will withdraw. His withdrawal will be just in time for the Democrats to swap him out for a better product.
Only yesterday, Platner was the new Democrat hotness. His Nazi tattoo proved to be a feature, not a bug. It represents the throbbing heart of the Democrat Party. As Jonathan Tobin observes, the Democrats’ belief in illegal immigration and opposition to Israel have become the organizing principles of American politics for the contemporary left.
Why opposition to the Jewish state? Platner’s Nazi tattoo spoke for itself. Platner disputed it, but it formed the basis of his hotness with the Democrat base. It’s where the party is at, so to speak, and locates it much more clearly than purported disagreement with Benjamin Netanyahu and this or that official in his government.
I made several contributions to the Platner campaign when I thought he was a Nazi who only sexually assaulted conservative women. Is it possible to get a refund now that we know he’s a Nazi who also rapes Democrats?
— 🫃🏼💉🇺🇦🇮🇷🇨🇺Hollaria Briden, Esq. (@HollyBriden) July 6, 2026
