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The Underreported Side of the Graham Platner Fiasco in Maine

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The Underreported Side of the Graham Platner Fiasco in Maine
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The Maine Senate race soared to the top of the news this weekend. It was already a prominent topic since this seat is crucial for Democrats aiming to flip the Senate in 2026. That may not happen: the presumptive Democratic nominee Graham Platner was accused of sexting, and he has an account on an app that’s reportedly used by and filled with pedophiles. But there’s a lesser-known angle to this drama that challenges those who want a calmer political climate, bipartisanship, and cooperation.

Of course, you know that line is being trotted out by panic-stricken weaklings. Have they stepped outside or seen the entire picture? Besides his reported abnormal tendencies, Platner is a hardcore leftist who wants to eliminate key institutions like the Supreme Court and feeds the red-meat talking points that the radical anti-Trump progressive base wants to hear, most of it illiberal and illogical. That’s the person whom Democrats and others believe can work with others? 

Meanwhile, they’re pouring tens of millions to remove one of the most moderate Republicans in the Senate, who has worked across party lines many times and isn’t what you would call MAGA at all. The irony is undeniable. 

Is it about government functioning or the pursuit of power? We all know it’s the latter—hell, I’m fully on board with that. Politics is warfare. It’s the organization of our animosities, but I don’t deceive myself about it like Democrats do every day. 

Democrats will always placate the GOP through tradition, procedure, and their sense of duty. It’s allowed them to outmaneuver us innumerable times, and for those who still think this way, the Democrats want a man with Nazi tattoos in the Senate. It’s not about service; again, it’s about power and destroying their opposition eventually through extrajudicial means. 

Wake up, guys. It’s time to fix bayonets, not give the floor to people who have become abjectly insane over the past 10 years. 

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