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Just what do lefties like Graham Platner have to do to get Democrats to condemn them?

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Democrats are again acting like they occupy the high moral ground of American politics.

But if 2026 has proven anything, it’s that there’s virtually nothing a left-wing candidate could say or do that would elicit condemnation from Democrats if doing so threatened their power.

Democrats, for example, demand credit for their opposition to Maureen Galindo, the Texas House candidate who proposed putting American “Zionists” (wink, wink) into concentration camps and castrating them.

Galindo lost her Texas primary last week, but still won 36% of the vote — not a bad showing for a politician championing mass imprisonment of her political enemies.

The question, though, is whether House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, or Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or anyone at Pod Save America or the Bulwark would have uttered a word in protest, had Galindo already won her primary before making those comments.

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You need to steal 300 gold bars before the CIA even checks your resumé?

All the evidence strongly suggests no.

And by evidence, I mean their explicit support for slightly less offensive cranks,........

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