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Barbara Kay: Progressive women embrace Maine’s Nazi-tattooed dude-bro Senate candidate

Despite his history, Graham Platner won 72 per cent of the Democratic Senate primary with strong backing from progressive women

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Having spent the last two weeks vacationing in Maine, I had the dubious pleasure of cognitive proximity to the successful bloom of Graham Platner mania. Platner is the “dude-bro” Maine Democrats are putting their money on for the Senate midterm win. The alleged philandering, women-bullying, military-comrade insulting, AR-15-owning, F-word-spewing, fake working classpopulist with no political experience won 72 per cent of the vote.

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Andrew Stiles of the Washington Free Beacon described Platner as “a bearded scumbag with a Nazi tattoo and a vanity oyster farm.” (Most, if not all, of his oysters go to his mom’s restaurant.) Stiles reminds us that Platner has also fantasized about raping burglars to show dominance (“not in a gay way,” you understand) and admitted to masturbating in porta-potties. There’s more, but I have other points to make and breakfast to keep down.

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