The whole candidacy of Graham Platner to unseat GOP Sen. Susan Collins, one of the few Republican members of the upper chamber from a reliably blue state, was based upon a mortal fallacy: Nothing worse was going to come out about him.
I mean, sure, Platner had a Nazi tattoo. He apparently had a history of disgusting social media remarks. He appeared on aHolocaust denier’s podcastand called himself a massive fan. That was what they came up withbeforehe really had an opponent. (While Gov. Janet Millswas formidable at the ballot box before she withdrew, it was clear her heart wasn’t in it.)
Well, guess what? Things have, quite unsurprisingly, gotten worse. On Saturday,The Wall Street Journalcame out with a story that Platner’s wife had alerted his campaign about sexually explicit texts exchanged with a number of women, in order “to make sure they didn’t pose a risk to her husband’s nascent campaign.”
Somehow,worsehas happened since then, but it’s worth pausing on the sexting scandal for a bit — because Democrats, in unison, all declared that this was a problem between Platner and his wife and maybe their therapist, and absolutely no one else.
This is problematic in and of itself — it comes after a chorus of the same people pillorying Texas GOP Senate nominee Ken Paxton because his wife divorced him“on biblical grounds,”as if they suddenly cared about that — but it becomes more problematic when you see some of the people who were leading it.
For instance, if you were schadenfreude-scrolling in the aftermath of the scandal breaking on Saturday afternoon, you were, more likely than not, fed the thoughts of a man called Morris Katz.
“It’s no one’s f***ing business what happened in Graham & Amy’s marriage before he was ever a candidate for office,” Katz said.
“There should be no place in our politics for incompetent, opportunistic operatives who violate privacy, betray trust, and prioritize vengeance over decency.”
WARNING: The following post contains vulgar language that some readers will find offensive.
It’s no one’s fucking business what happened in Graham & Amy’s marriage before he was ever a candidate for office.
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