Opponents went all in on smearing Graham Platner as a Nazi based on a bad tattoo choice. It didn’t work. Maine voters decided they’d rather have universal health care and an end to reckless wars than a polished politician with an unblemished past.

Platner was subject to one of the most intense smear campaigns in the history of modern electoral politics. Despite a platform that would make him one of the Senate’s most left-wing members (along with Bernie Sanders and, if he wins his own race, Abdul El-Sayed), he was widely accused of being a secret Nazi

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOP
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    1 day ago

    He was a machine gun section leader and then he worked as a private military guard/grunt, which everyone acts like is this shocking betrayal not understanding that for the individual soldiers actually doing soldier stuff that isn’t an unusual career path and it simply isn’t the same as being a CEO of a company like that… and while you can criticize it you can also make the argument it might be good to have someone in the Senate who has actually experienced what it is like to be a grunt in the US military, not everybody needs to have that experience, diversity is good but a couple more of those and a couple less lawyers would do us a whole lot of good I think.

    I am not saying the guy is perfect either, it is just that the accusations are so lazy and I think voters see that in Maine clearly.