Could oyster farmer with a Nazi tattoo scandal be Democrats' new champion?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A gruff oyster farmer who only recently got rid of his Nazi-style tattoo is the unlikely face of the Democrats' bid to seize the Senate from President Donald Trump's Republicans -- and recover working-class voters.

That a man like Graham Platner finds himself on the front line of the fight for national power in the United States says a lot about a Democratic Party trying to find its way out of the wilderness.

Democrats are bullish about winning the House of Representatives in November's midterm elections. But the Senate -- and ability to wield real power during Trump's last two years -- is a far tougher challenge.

Enter Platner, a 41-year-old former Marine who talks movingly of his opposition to war after serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is targeting a key Senate seat in Maine, where longtime Republican incumbent Susan Collins is seen as vulnerable.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/could-oyster-farmer-nazi-tattoo-012134211.html

[bucolic_frolic]

1. MAGA are an emotional cult

Several % of them defecting the GOP for a new direction might tip the race. Yet our party is being dragged to the middle on economic issues. Other issues - women, diversity - will go into hiding.

[Nixie]

2. LOL, this article smears "liberal activists"

So I guess this is now our party’s own war on wokeness?

[leftstreet]

3. Third Wayers are just shi*ting themselves

You love to see it

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But figures like Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherill, who convincingly won governorship races in Virginia and New Jersey last year, come from the national security world and pride themselves on centrism.

What nonsense! They both ran on, and won, with very populist economic messages. Healthcare, utility bills, rents

[Nixie]

4. This message is not something discovered 11 years ago.

I’ve heard and seen this from all Democrats. Some people have invested in trying to convince others that Democrats never stood for healthcare, the environment, unions, working class…….

[EX500rider]

5. Yes, he was so against war after he left the military that he joined Blackwater?

Sounds like a strange "anti-war" thing to do

[LudwigPastorius]

6. I'm not looking for a "champion".

I'm just looking for a sincere, hard-working person who will adhere to Democratic principles and vote accordingly.

I have no idea if Platner is that, but the fact that he got (and kept, for a while) a Nazi tattoo indicates either wildly malleable politics or striking ignorance. Neither of those things are something I'd roll the dice on with my vote.

Mainers may think differently though.