Miranda Devine: Slimy Dems — the party of Me Too — show their true colors in Graham Platner scandal
By Miranda Devine
Published July 8, 2026, 10:50 p.m. ET
The party of Me Too has shown its true face in the rolling Graham Platner scandal.
Now that a liberal woman has credibly accused him of rape, the rats have deserted the sinking ship and the Democrat-endorsed US Senate candidate for Maine has dropped out.
But it’s “Me Too” late to save face.
Conservatives always knew the left’s effort to assert moral superiority on matters of sex, race and ideology were play-acting but now it’s undeniable for even their most blinkered supporters.
The Democratic Party’s defense of Platner to the bitter end against an avalanche of rape and sexual abuse allegations, not to mention his Nazi tattoo, has left them exposed as hypocrites.
They weaponize moral outrage against the right while rationalizing far worse on their own side.
They waved away reports of Platner’s issues with women when they first surfaced two months ago in the form of Reddit posts in which he downplayed sexual assault and suggested victims had themselves to blame if they got drunk.
These disturbing comments were dismissed as old and irrelevant, and were excused on the pretext that Platner was suffering from PTSD, an insult to military veterans who don’t treat rape like a legitimate spoil of masculinity.
In any case, Platner, 41, wrote the posts a decade ago when he was old enough to know better.
Sen. John Fetterman was the lone voice in the Democratic Party calling out Platner from the start as a “creep” and “dirtbag.”
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