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Victor Davis Hanson: The Rise and Fall of Socialist Graham Platner

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Please note that it was recorded before Graham Platner’s Friday announcement that he is officially withdrawing his candidacy for the United States Senate. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos.

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. 

For the last month or so, we’ve heard nothing but “Graham Platner, Graham Platner, Graham Platner.” He is a quote-unquote “oyster man from Maine” that was a four-tour combat veteran, who the Democratic Party, Mr. [Morris] Katz, a very obscure 27-year-old activist, recruited for the Democratic Party to run against Susan Collins for the senior senator slot in Maine. 

And he’s very controversial, as we all remember. After he declared his candidacy, we learned that he had smeared and slandered fellow veterans. He was on social media sites that usually were used by pedophiles and molesters. He had been married recently, yet he was sexting with two or three other women. One of his former girlfriends said he’d used violence to twist her arm. I could go on.  

He had the Totenkopf “Death Head” tattoo and Nazi symbol of the 3rd Panzer Division and the Einsatzgruppen at the death camps of Germany. 

But a new development happened this week when another person came forward and said that not just that she had her arm twisted and had been physically assaulted, but she said she was raped. 

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And then everything started to change. And what caused this change? Because remember one thing: All of these terrible things I just reviewed about Graham Platner were known to the left-wing voters of Maine, and they factored that in in the primary vote. And so much was their zeal for a socialist candidate—and he is a socialist, whether he declares himself that or not—or their hatred of Donald Trump, or their desire to get a Senate seat so they can maybe impeach and convict Donald Trump, I don’t know, but they were fine with that. 

But two recent developments occurred when the Democratic Party said you may........

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