Actually, we did.
Maine Governor Janet Mills dropped her bid for the U.S. Senate yesterday, leaving the nomination open to the guy with the Nazi tattoo. Now Democrats, who have spent the past two decades telling voters that every Republican running for office is the next reincarnation of Hitler simply because of the (R) after their name, are suddenly okay with such blatant acceptance of Nazism.
That's (D)ifferent.
Despite what the Democrats have screamed about for half of my life, they're clearly not really troubled by actual Naziism. They're simply troubled by Republicans winning elections. So it's no surprise to me that Democrats are going to wholeheartedly embrace Graham Platner, despite having actual Nazi imagery inked on his skin.
I've peeped some Twitter liberals in my timeline hint or say outright they won't vote for Platner over Collins
— Jessiah (@thepondering_) April 30, 2026
To which I remind you all: VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO CUTS BOTH WAYS
If leftists should vote for moderate nominees (they should), moderates should vote for leftist ones https://t.co/Ef85k22fPS
The path to electoral success is not as easy as Platner and his team seem to think. CNN's Abby Phillip even pushed back on the issue, saying there are more problems with Platner than his tattoo.
Just a few short years ago, Democrats were telling their supporters they had a moral obligation to "punch a Nazi," by which they meant any person to the right of Stalin. I'm a Nazi, you — dear Townhall reader — are a Nazi. The word associated with the most horrific regime on the planet soon became a catch-all for the Left to use against anyone who didn't vote for Democrats.
What they were doing, of course, was creating a permission structure under which their foot soldiers would be encouraged to act against President Trump and Republicans. A few years ago, that resulted in a Bernie bro shooting and almost killing Steve Scalise, it's led to three assassination attempts against President Trump, and it took the life of Charlie Kirk last September.
Republicans are Nazis. Nazis are bad. Ergo, it's okay to harass, punch, or even murder them.
Until that Nazi has a (D) after his name. Then he's the best candidate to bring the Democrats back into power. As Adam Mockler told Abby Phillip, Platner is the start of a new era for Democrats. And now, as Philip Klein pointed out, we'll have to hear about our moral obligation to support this guy.
Perfectly summed up by @philipaklein: "Now we’ll have to listen for months to arguments that it is our moral duty to support the Nazi tattoo guy over the threat posed by centrist Republican Senator Susan Collins, because Trump." https://t.co/Ee2uL3N82K
— jeremysenderowicz (@senderowiczj) April 30, 2026
The hypocrisy and double standard are so blatant and wild that it would not surprise me at all if some voters didn't believe it. After all, the Democrats spent years telling us Republicans are Nazis and Nazis are bad (we know that from history class, too), why would they nominate one? Even typing it out seems ridiculous.
But it's not. It's the reality, and Democrats now will have a reckoning when their years of Nazi rhetoric meet the Maine Senate candidate. And it's a reckoning they're ultimately going to lose.
