‘Ragebait’ turns Graham Platner’s flaws into winners — with help from GOP critics
Isaac Schorr
If the Devil couldn’t manage to convince the world he didn’t exist, his next best bet would be to pitch himself to its inhabitants as a relatable rogue.
In Maine, Republicans are ready to pop the champagne over the seemingly endless stream of scandals hanging over Graham Platner’s Senate campaign.
Over the weekend, Platner tacked infidelity — he apparently sent explicit messages to as many as a dozen women and operated an account on Kik, a platform notorious for hosting child sex predators — onto his ever-expanding list of obscene acts.
That list includes his emblazoning a Nazi tattoo across his chest, rape victim-shaming, mockery of a Purple Heart veteran, praise for Hamas, disparagement of rural Mainers and affinity for pleasuring himself in porta-potties.
But other than that, Mrs. Lincoln?
Still, Platner remains a viable candidate — not just in spite of, but because of his personal defects.
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