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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  • chloroken@lemmy.mlEnglish
    87·
    10 days ago

    Reposting my exact comment from a few days ago:

    Smear campaign? I read his public reddit posts bragging about murder, looked at his lifelong Nazi tattoo (before he covered it up for office), and formed the only possible conclusion an honest person could…