DON’T BE STUPID, BE A SCHMARTY: The Democrats Have Officially Ceded the Moral High Ground*.
It’s official: The guy who knowingly got a Nazi tattoo on his chest and roughed up his girlfriend is now the Democrats’ nominee in Maine. Graham Platner has won his primary and will now face off against Susan Collins in November.
The same people who called the Right Nazis for 10 years, who accused the Right of sending women back to the dark ages, who called Trump a rapist and pedophile protector, and who claim Trump is sending soldiers to die, are now backing a guy with an actual Nazi tattoo, who twisted his ex-girlfriend’s arm and left bruises, who spent years on a sexting site notorious for hosting predators cheating on his wife, and who has relentlessly mocked veterans.
It’s truly amazing. Yet it goes beyond just the hypocrisy of it all.
There’s a Wall Street Journal video that’s gone viral of an interview with Daniel Moraff and Leanne Fan, the activists who handpicked Graham Platner and convinced his to run for office. The activists had uncovered some of Platner’s gross Reddit posts but told the WSJ didn’t find them disqualifying.
“Part of our thesis here is that people do not want their candidates grown in vats. They want people who are real human beings,” Moraff says.
Did you catch that?
Your choices are Nazi or a vat.
Roughing up your girlfriend makes you a “real human being.”
Apparently, this is how you get back the white working class! This is how you get back men, according to Daniel Moraff and a host of other progressive college-educated pundits and nepo baby activists.
As “Cynical Publius” tweeted at the start of the month:
Tweet concludes, “So maybe they want to run to the RIGHT of Collins, and since these idiots ACTUALLY BELIEVE we are all actual Nazis, maybe they saw Platner as the ideal candidate. Because they are stupidly brainwashed. Just a theory…”
That theory seems confirmed by Bill Maher, who told viewers last week, “I mean [Platner] is a new kind of guy and it is not just in the Democrats, people who, like—if you look at their history, you can find things that make them look very conservative. Like a Nazi tattoo. What I would—in the past—associate with conservatives.”
For the record, outside of a few stereotypical motorcycle gang members on TV cop shows, I don’t recall ever seeing anyone on the right with a Nazi tattoo, but I’ll admit to leading a very sheltered life. The Nazi tat aside (and those are three words I never thought I’d type in a row):
#Metoo? “Believe All Women?” Returning to power is far more important:
* I’ll take headlines from 1959, Alex:
