You remember Graham Platner, right? Oysterman and veteran from the great state of Maine; rough-hewn man of the people; plainspoken progressive with outsider appeal; “populist progressive” challenger to Governor Janet Mills for the Democratic nomination to take on the impossibly resilient Susan Collins in Maine’s marquee Senate race in November. Platner seemed like he was bred in a vat to scientifically appeal to the Democratic base’s yearning for a candidate with “working class” appeal and progressive politics.

And then it was revealed that he had a few skeletons in his closet — or more accurately, on his skin: an enormous Nazi ...

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