To be sure, Platner checks the left-wing box with his professed Communist leanings. You can’t get more left-wing than that. But I think the key to Platner’s success is his overt anti-Semitism. At the time he was pulling away from Mills, by far the best-known fact about Platner was his Nazi tattoo. Far from disqualifying him in the eyes of Democratic voters, the tattoo seems to have endeared him to them.
...I think it is fair to say that, during the months when his Senate campaign took off, Graham Platner’s best-known characteristic was his hostility to the Jews.
I think that anti-Semitism is no longer the obsession of an oddball fringe. Rather, it is close to the beating heart of the Democratic Party. At this point it may, in fact, be the defining ideology of the Democratic Party. Far from being a millstone around the neck of a nonentity like Graham Platner, it was the secret to his meteoric rise.
This is the sad state of affairs in America today. To support the Dem party is to support antisemitism. It's as simple as that. The worst members of the party are guilty of overt antisemitism, like Platner. The others are guilty of standing by idly and adopting a stance of implied shtika k'hodaah in an attempt to not be cancelled by the mob. They have no moral backbone or courage. The one exception is Fetterman, and he is the exception that proves the rule.
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