We read Graham Platner’s whole Reddit archive. The vilification of the Maine candidate for Senate doesn’t square with what he actually wrote in his posts.
Sorry, I don’t trust someone who chose to fight for mercenaries during the Trump admin and I do not believe for a second that he, at no point in the nearly twenty years between 2007 and 2025, didn’t know about the Nazi symbol on his chest, and only found out last week when he had it covered up. If he did learn prior to that, he was comfortable wearing a Nazi symbol on his chest until it became politically inconvenient.
That’s especially unbelievable if what the Jacobin article says, that he’s “… a left-leaning guy who runs frequently in hyper-right wing circles”, is true. Heck, that concept on its own is suspicious and off-putting.
My single opinion is irrelevant, I have no say in politics, and it looks like he’s gonna win anyway, so here’s hoping he does good things, but I will never trust him.
Edit: On paper his policies and opinions look good. But so did Fetterman’s in PA…
Sorry, I don’t trust someone who chose to fight for mercenaries during the Trump admin and I do not believe for a second that he, at no point in the nearly twenty years between 2007 and 2025, didn’t know about the Nazi symbol on his chest, and only found out last week when he had it covered up. If he did learn prior to that, he was comfortable wearing a Nazi symbol on his chest until it became politically inconvenient.
That’s especially unbelievable if what the Jacobin article says, that he’s “… a left-leaning guy who runs frequently in hyper-right wing circles”, is true. Heck, that concept on its own is suspicious and off-putting.
My single opinion is irrelevant, I have no say in politics, and it looks like he’s gonna win anyway, so here’s hoping he does good things, but I will never trust him.
Edit: On paper his policies and opinions look good. But so did Fetterman’s in PA…
Working class veneer on a guy with rich parents sounds a lot like Fetterman.