cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38323356
Oct. 31, 2025, 5:02 a.m. ET Michelle Goldberg
Andy O’Brien, a former Democratic state legislator and newspaper editor, told me that outsiders didn’t fully understand how radicalizing the second Trump presidency has been for ordinary Democrats. Even senior citizens, he said, were becoming “fire-breathing leftists. They’re just pissed off.”
These voters understood that Platner had made mistakes, but they saw him as a fighter. “Five years ago, he would have been dead in the water, I think,” said O’Brien, who now works with the labor movement. “But this is such an unprecedented time. I think a lot of people really believe that we need somebody who can effectively fight against fascism.”
Maine is an overwhelmingly white state, but it’s not just white guys who feel this way. “We’re sticking by him,” said Safiya Khalid, a Somali American activist and former member of the Lewiston City Council.
you seem to want him to be a Nazi more than there is any evidence for him being a Nazi.
seems like you’ve got an axe to grind.
I mean… its a nazi. So more like an entrenching shovel to grind?
And folk wonder why women, people of color, and LGBTQIA+ folk tend to roll their eyes and distance themselves from Online Leftists.
Bruh it looks like the terminally online kettle has something to say.
Like, you making the accusation that Platner is a secret nazi does not a secret nazi Platner make. This was oppo research released to have this exact effect, targeted to operate on a person exactly like you. It was released in coordination with Mills announcement and Schumers endorsement to have maximum effect in stalling out/ pulling back Platners momentum.
So like, the oppo worked, on you.
Yeah no. The totenkopf that was on his chest for 20 years does that. And the whole Blackwater thing doesn’t help. Nor does the homophobia.
Wait… the opposition has a time machine and were able to go back 20 years, drug him, tattoo a totenkopf on his chest, and then trick him from realizing it was there for the next 20 years? And they are wasting it on THIS?
If “the oppo”'s goal was to make me dislike a nazi and really prefer we not tell all our POC/LBGTQIA+/Women “allies” to fuck off because this is a man’s world? Mission successful?
Intent does not change facts. And if you think it is so important to spite the facsists by electing a nazi to the Senate…
It is interesting to watch how these kinds of programs operate on, and who they use to do their work.