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.
it’s like, i don’t want to justify a guy who had a nazi tattoo and worked as a merc for the great satan, but i’m ok with any triage that involves stopping the genocide of mostly children? surely we don’t need to say that the democratic party is so identically the same as the republican party that electing a guy who the democratic party hates for being against funding genocide is the same as electing a lady who has on her record funding genocide.
it’s like, i don’t want to justify a guy who had a nazi tattoo and worked as a merc for the great satan, but i’m ok with any triage that involves stopping the genocide of mostly children? surely we don’t need to say that the democratic party is so identically the same as the republican party that electing a guy who the democratic party hates for being against funding genocide is the same as electing a lady who has on her record funding genocide.