Maine senate race: a failed 77-year-old governess vs Mamdani of the North, a 40-year-old commie darling of the New Democrats. Lose-lose.

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What happens in Maine pretty much stays in Maine, so who outside the Land of the Subaru should care about the politics in this backwater of irelevancy? Probably no one, except that the (loud, very loud) call of the new generation of Democrat voters is drowning out and replacing that of Maine’s other type of loons, just as it’s doing in other Blue states, and that’s going to make the next two years … interesting.

Prominent Democrat Voices are Angry with Their Party Establishment for Urging Mills to Run for Senate Against the More Radical Platner

Maine’s Democratic senatorial primary is revealing a potential split in the party between the established Democrats who urged Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) to run and prominent left-wing voices and younger voters who prefer the radical but untested Graham Platner.

For example, Sohali Vaddula, Vice President of the College Democrats of America has announced that “College Democrats are proud to endorse @grahamformaine for U.S. Senate! Graham Platner is marine veteran and oyster farmer who understands the needs of the working class and will be a strong champion for those our party has let down.”

The Maine Wire reports:

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) recently submitted a Federal Election Commission (FEC) filing creating the joint Maine Senate Victory 2026 fund with Mills for Maine, showing that the establishment organization intends to help Mills win over the more radical Platner.

While Mills’ age could prove an issue against the 72-year-old five-term incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Platner’s more radical persona could pose a challenge for voters who have historically preferred Sen. Collins’ moderate centrism.

Nevertheless, a number of younger Democrat political groups, including Gen-Z for Change, Voters of Tomorrow, Youth Save Democracy, and College Democrats of America, all threw their weight behind the newbie Platner on the day Mills announced her candidacy.

David Hogg, a young Democrat who rose to prominence as a gun-control activist and who served a brief term as co-vice president of the Democratic National Committee, expressed his support for Platner as a younger candidate he believes can appeal to the young male voters that Democrats desperately need.

“Proud to join some of the largest Dem youth orgs and endorse @grahamformaine. After our loss in 2024, conversations have rightly centered on age, loss of young men/working class, and the growing disillusionment of young voters. Graham is the kind of candidate we need,” said Hogg.

Well, with David Hogg behind him, how can this man of the people lose?

Other Democrat “strategists” also question the traditional party leaders’ endorsement of Mills:

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And one commie recognizes another:

Naturally, some uncomfortable social media posts by the oyster farmer are being turned up; fortunately for him, New Democrats won’t care — in fact, as they’re demonstrating in New York City, they wholeheartedly approve of these sentiments.

Maine's Mamdami Called Himself a Communist and Said White People Were Racist and Stupid

Have you heard about Graham Platner? He's being called Maine's Mamdani and, like Tim Walz before him (or at least what Walz was supposed to be), Platner combines far-left sensibilities with a kind of plain-spoken blue-collar approach that seems to be the left-wing ideal now. This is a tattooed veteran and business owner who would fit right in at a GOP rally, but he's talking about oligarchs and billionaires like he's Bernie Sanders.

“…. Today, just in time for Halloween, some of those skeletons came flying out of the closet. CNN's Andrew Kaczynski has a story up looking at Platner's social media history taken from Reddit. It turns out he's a self-described communist who hates cops.”

In one now-deleted Reddit comment from 2021, Platner responded to a thread about people becoming more conservative as they age by saying: “I got older and became a communist.” The comment was made on a subreddit called r/Antiwork, a far-left forum “for those who want to end work.”...

In another Reddit post that year, Platner reflected on his life after his military service, saying he was “a vegetable growing, psychedelics taking socialist these days. After the war, I’ve pretty much stopped believing in any of the patriotic nonsense that got me there in the first place, and am a firm believer that the best thing a person can do is help their neighbors and live a loving life.”

“Still got the guns though,” he added. “I don’t trust the fascists to act politely.”...

In one deleted comment, in a thread about a Black army lieutenant who was held at gunpoint and pepper-sprayed by police during a traffic stop, one Reddit user wrote, “Bastards. Cops are bastards.” Platner replied, “All of them, in fact.”

Platner also frequently weighed in on police violence, arguing that misconduct was “a problem that extends deep into the profession as a whole” and rejecting claims of accidental shootings after incidents such as the killing of Minneapolis Black man Daunte Wright, writing, “F**k these cops.”...

In another since-removed post from 2020, Platner responded to a thread titled “White people aren’t as racist or stupid as Trump thinks” by writing, “Living in white rural America, I’m afraid to tell you they actually are.”

That last one should go over great in rural Maine, which is about 91% white. He might also have limited his own appeal with anyone who likes America. He wrote in another Reddit forum in 2021 "I did used to love America, or at least the idea of it. These days I’m pretty disgusted by it all."

CNN gave him a chance to comment and Platner denied that he really believed any of those things. "That was very much me f**king around the internet," he told CNN. He added, "“I’m not a communist. I’m not a socialist. I own a small business."

As for his comments about the police, he says he has a bunch of friends who are cops and assures CNN, "They’re not all bastards..."

Does he think white people are racist and stupid? "I don’t believe that," he explained.

Which Graham Platner is more likely to be the real one? Is it the guy commenting anonymously online four years ago who had no reason to lie or is it the one in the midst of a Senate campaign today who has everyone reason to distance himself from this? I think we all know the answer to that.

But we've also learned that progressives probably don't care about any of this. Many of them also hate cops and America and white people. These are some of their core beliefs too. If saying these things out loud offended the Democratic party than Platner's race would be over. It won't be. It wouldn't surprise me if his fundraising went up after this.

(By the way, Platner’s denunciation of “The Oligarchy” is hardly new; but the old commie in VT has been on it for years)