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Leftist media folk have spent a decade suggesting that their favorite political villain is a Nazi, but it’s suddenly unclear if they intended it as a criticism. That’s because they’re now serving up political endorsements of a guy who had a Nazi symbol etched into his skin. Missing from this picture is any attempt at resistance. The new message from the left is that if you won’t back their U.S. Senate candidate in Maine and his heavy authoritarian vibes, it’s because you’re not fearful enough. “If Democrats Have Appropriate Fear of Trump, They Will Elect Platner,” says a headline in the New
York Times. Times opinion columnist Frank Bruni writes: Graham Platner isn’t my ideal Senate candidate. Not even close. I’m deeply troubled by the thinness of his political experience, by the primacy of raw anger in his appeal to voters and by the oddities and ugliness, from a Nazi tattoo to a fondness for “gay” and “gayest” as put-downs, in his not-so-distant past. It’s a lot to overlook. To elaborate on the ugliness, Mr. Bruni links to a Politico story from October describing Mr. Platner’s release of a video “offering a lengthy explanation and expressing regret for Reddit comments that endorsed political violence, minimized rape in the military and disparaged police.” Last fall Mr. Platner also had the tattoo covered with a new design.
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