Graham Platner, frequently finding himself in hot water, often resorts to a familiar scapegoat: the Jewish community.
More specifically, Platner tends to mention “AIPAC” and gestures toward Benjamin Netanyahu as the mastermind, suggesting a global Jewish conspiracy without outright saying so.
Currently running as a Democratic candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in Maine, Platner faces allegations of mistreating women. It’s been revealed that he kept an active presence on the “Kik” app, notorious for predatory behavior, and admitted to engaging in explicit text exchanges with several women since marrying in 2023.
These controversies have emerged even after he covered up an old Totenkopf tattoo, a notorious symbol.
Senator John Fetterman recently criticized his Democratic peers for supporting Platner, listing his various transgressions, including the controversial tattoo. In response, Platner accused Fetterman of being a puppet for AIPAC.
Of course, that’s also what he says about his GOP opponent, Sen. Susan Collins, though he has to tell massive whoppers about how much AIPAC money she’s received to justify it.
Nationally, the Democrats have gone blind, deaf and dumb to the sort of thing they used to call “dog whistles,” but which in this case are blaring sirens and lights flashing “JEWS JEWS JEWS.”
Blind or complicit: Platner’s key guest at his rally last Saturday was Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), one of the richest members of Congress, who came to Bar Harbor to defend Graham and rail about the fabled “Epstein Class.”
The Epstein Class, a group originally named — but never defined — by Khanna, refers to a shadowy cabal of pedophiles who evidently run the country for nefarious purposes.
The term may not be explicitly antisemitic; you can consider it just a coincidence that it all plays off Jeffrey Epstein’s evil . . . but consider how Khanna praised Platner for “telling the truth about the billionaire class, about the Epstein class, about AIPAC, about foreign wars.”
Vile as Jeffrey Epstein was, he and his circle had nothing to do with promoting “foreign wars,” nor were any of them prominent AIPAC sponsors.
So what are Khanna and Platner — who also rants about the Epstein Class — talking about?
When they (along with their Republican ally, Thomas Massie, who just got rejected by his voters) keep dropping blatant hints about Jews, malicious elites and billionaires that sound like the sort of thing Henry Ford published in the 1920s in the Dearborn Independent, it sure sounds like a concerted effort to revive the classic blend of Jew-hate.
Few Democrats — Fetterman (D-Pa.) and Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) excepted — have been willing to push against this rising tide of hate within their party.
If Dems don’t start fighting the virus soon, it’ll take a full-on civil war to burn out the infection.