Platner, the socialists’ latest con man
The mad and bad Roman emperor, Caligula, made his horse a senator. So the scope for mad and bad political choices is wide. After winning the Democratic primary in Maine on Tuesday, essentially unopposed, Graham Platner is feeling his oats. And he might gallop all the way to the U.S. Senate in November, despite being manifestly unsuitable for the job. It would be a mad and bad decision by the Pine Tree State’s voters to send him there.
TL;DR
- Graham Platner won the Democratic primary in Maine and is running for the U.S. Senate.
- He is accused of identifying with Nazism and communism, frequenting a sexual predator website, and sexting.
- Concerns exist about undisclosed details regarding his texts to women.
- Platner is described as a demagogue and protégé of Bernie Sanders, employing class-warfare rhetoric.
- The article suggests the Democratic Party is being taken over by socialist radicals like Platner.
- Platner is seen as a 'Potemkin candidate' manipulated by New York-based operatives.
- The incumbent senator, Susan Collins (R-ME), is portrayed as a centrist contrast to Platner.