The rise of the United States as the world’s foremost economic and moral force in the 20th century was largely marked by the defeat of Nazi Germany, made possible thanks to the monumental sacrifice of the country’s greatest generation. In the decades that followed, the term “Nazi” remained so loaded with historical significance that, for the longest time, to be called a Nazi was the ultimate insult.
Thanks to some members of the Democratic Party, however, that is no longer the case.
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In Maine, Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced on Thursday that she would be withdrawing from her state’s U.S. Senate race, with one Democrat emerging as the sole candidate to face the incumbent Sen. Susan Collins: Graham Platner.
If you haven’t heard of Platner, his political highlights include promoting social media posts from neo-Nazi Holocaust deniers, hob-nobbing with antisemitic podcast hosts, and praising the Islamist terrorist group, Hamas.
And, most notably, Platner sported a Nazi tattoo — the infamous “Totenkopf,” or “death’s head,” of the Nazi SS death squads — for nearly 20 years and covered it up only when he faced criticism for adorning himself with the logo of one of history’s most brutal groups of mass murderers.
“It was not until I started hearing from reporters and DC insiders that I realized this tattoo resembled a Nazi symbol,” Platner attempted to explain when people noticed his tattoo. “I absolutely would not have gone through life having this on my chest if I knew that — and to insinuate that I did is disgusting.”
Disgusting, huh? As National Review’s Jim Geraghty pointed out, one particularly drooling New Yorker profile of Platner lauded the Democrat as a military history buff, making his claim of ignorance of one of the most recognizable symbols not only of World War II but of military warfare about as unconvincing as it gets.
And, I’m sorry, but the Totemkopf does not “resemble” a Nazi symbol. It is a Nazi symbol, and the idea that you would mistakenly get such a symbol tattooed across your chest and fail to Google what that symbol represented for almost 20 years is, actually, disgusting.
But let’s look past the obvious troubles at the heart of Platner’s campaign and address the real elephant in the room: Why is a candidate with a Nazi tattoo suddenly popular in the Democratic Party?
After all, aren’t Nazis bad? I thought fascists were the worst? Isn’t the Left’s hatred for Trump himself built on the fact that he is (supposedly) the ultimate white supremacist Nazi bigot? What changed?
Well, the answer is as simple as it is terrifying. Today, parts of the Democratic Party are seemingly comfortable with Jew hatred and will openly embrace its latest form — radical Islamic antisemitism merged with radical leftism — if it means they can take one step further in the direction of ultimate power.
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If that means, for some, embracing Nazis, so be it.
At this point, if Adolf Hitler himself came back from the dead and ran for the Democrats in Maine, he’d probably appear on a livestream with sympathizers of his who would fall over themselves to explain that the Holocaust was an invention of the evil Republicans, who are the real Nazis anyway.
Ian Haworth is a syndicated columnist. You can find his work on Substack.
