process. The party has repeatedly told them to stop. They haven’t stopped. So now it’s on video, for the entire country to see: Graham Platner is being run over by his own party, and he’s lying in the road refusing to move.
Here’s the part that should make every Maine Democrat furious — not at Republicans, but at themselves. This catastrophe was entirely preventable. The Nazi tattoo was public before the primary. The domestic abuse allegations were circulating. The New York Times had a story so damning that Platner’s lawyers spent 24 hours trying to kill it before publication. And Maine Democrats looked at all of it, shrugged, and gave him 150,000 votes anyway because they needed a Senate seat and he was the candidate in front of them.
