Margaux R

Graham Platner won the Democratic Senate nomination running away with the vote — better than seventy percent of the primary vote — after conservatives and even establishment Democrats had already documented, in public, the opposition research the progressive Left pretended not to see: the tattoo widely recognized as an SS death’s head, which he first claimed not to understand; the years on an anonymous messaging app; the explicit texts to other women during his marriage. Republicans and even centrist Democrats didn’t whisper these things; they published them. And the same class that spent four years insulating Biden went to work insulating Platner: it’s just text messages, waved one Democratic senator; seems like a lot of nothing, shrugged another when the allegations turned physical. And when a Democrat broke ranks to say what conservatives were saying, the party did to him what it had done to Robert Hur. John Fetterman — who actually flipped a Republican-held seat and who knows something about winning a purple state — called Platner what he plainly appeared to be, and was treated as the problem. Not the tattoo. Not the conduct. The man who named it. The machine’s instinct, as always, was not to examine the accusation but to hunt the accuser. ewerickson.substack.com/p/th…