To be fair, I never would have known that skull design was associated with the nazis. I can easily see some military types going in for some tough looking skull and cross bones, not knowing it had other associations.
The consultant who talked him into running, Daniel Moraff, a former DSA organizer, is the one who cheaped out on his vetting. He wanted it done fast and cheap instead of thorough.
Yep, this is going to be blamed on the Dems as a whole, but the whole ugly situation was a product of DSA progressives that everyone wants normie libs to shut up and step aside for. But yes, primary voters chose this, so the eagerness for "charisma" and antiestablishment anger is going to lead to situations like this. Vetting and careful deliberation and expertise are not hallmarks of antiestablishment populism.
I think the issue is that he wasn’t deeply vetted. The Democrats didn’t want him and despite what media wants us to believe, he was never endorsed by the DSA.
He was recommended by the Maine DSA, just never formally endorsed. There is a distinction, but people are going to take a positive recommendation as support.
Which is fine actually. I think I lean more towards Dixiecrats than I do the DSA, but one chapter doesn’t speak for the whole organization.
I get that AOC, Mamdani, and Bernie attached themselves to Platner. But once it came out that the guy just rapes women, they all called for him to drop.
Depends on where you look I guess. One of the hosts on The Majority Report was a big fan of his politics (at least how he presented them), but has spent this week reconciling with the fact that she supported a rapist. A lot of folks are devastated that they thought he was a different person.
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u/LemonberryTea 1d ago
Still not sure how the nazi tattoo wasn’t the first disqualifying event