So, Janet Mills dropped out of the Senate race last week. Advantage Platner, I guess.

The BDN put out a postmortem of the Mills campaign the next day, almost like they’d written half of it in advance:

“I feel badly for Janet, and I feel badly for our democracy,” Buxton said. “This is going to be a very interesting period.”

That’s Tony Buxton, a “lobbyist,” as the BDN made sure to introduce him as in paragraph 1. He’s the only person in the story who was supporting the Mills campaign… no, wait, there was one other who wished to remain anonymous, for reasons which might already be clear.

Her last gasp was a March ad blitz focused on Platner’s old, offensive Reddit posts that rocked his campaign when they were disclosed in October. But his polling lead remained steady.

…maybe because the focus there was on social-media posts from 2013 and not, say, 2021. But some (many) Dems and lefties were reluctant to attack Platner, we’re told, because he was already the presumptive nominee and he needed to be unscathed for the general election against Collins.

Meanwhile, the BDN describes Platner as a “younger” “political unknown,” a “political newcomer,” and “a talented standard bearer,” who draws “large crowds at town hall-style meetings” and “was just getting started.” And then in the next story, they call him an “anti-establishment” “progressive insurgent”… they’re going to glaze him for the rest of the fucking year, aren’t they?

(He was in town-level politics, which doesn’t quite fit my definition of “political newcomer,” but then I’m not as invested as most of the Dem Establishment in portraying this tool as the second coming of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.)

And his proxies are already on the socials, blaming his being called a Nazi on “billionaires” and “oligarchs” from “MAGA world.”

I’m a thousandaire from the real world, and Platner is still a Nazi. Or at least, as one Redditor put it, Nazi-curious.

It isn’t just his “old” social-media posts from 2013 – it’s that plus his other posts up to and including 2026, plus his Totenkopf tat, plus his Fenrir coverup tat, plus his associations with the scumbag nationalist influencer set. And his political messaging isn’t helping his case; when I see a pol randomly spouting focus-grouped populist talking points these days, I’m comfortable assuming he either (1) has no political principles of his own or (2) knows his principles would put voters off…