Don't count on it — the force is strong in this Blue State

Matt Margolis:

Graham Platner's Senate Campaign Is Finished

Oh, really? Here’s a more realistic view, in my opinion:

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING:

Graham Platner Is Not an Outlier in the Democratic Party. “What the few remaining normie Democrats don’t understand is that the coastal Dems are OK with Platner because he’s not that different than any of them. We’ve seen the hard turn to antisemitism that the Democrats have taken in recent years. They’ve been big defenders of the ‘Free Palestine’ campus Brownshirts. The only real difference between Platner and a lot of the Dems in D.C. is that he got the tattoo.”

Reader “Behind the Library” commented on yesterday post about this commie fraud:

Behind the Library17 hours ago

I don't know why anyone thinks Platner can't win the primary. His one viable opponent, Gov. Janet Mills, had no notable support from her party or its elders, ran no visible campaign at all, and dropped out weeks ago, though her name remains on the ballot. In a 25 mile loop through the towns of York, Kittery, and Eliot, I can count at least 100 Platner signs, zero Mills signs, and now, at last, two whole Susan Collins signs. Portland isn't the biggest media market in the country, but Platner is the largest single advertiser in that market, out-advertising all other candidates combined and most of the private sector business advertisers as well. His Nazi tattoo, his professed communism, his penchant for wanking in porta-loos, his infidelity (married three years and they've already been to marriage counseling), his contempt for and smears of veterans, his fake oysterman personality (his only customer is his mother's restaurant, his dad bought him his house, and he went to prep school), matter not one whit.

He will win the primary on the votes of the young ignorant wokesters (but I repeat myself) of Portland and the old white red diaper/yellow dog Democrats of York County. He hates Trump, and that's all these people need to know. (It's also the entire platform of every Dem running in the primary for Governor, but that's for another day.) York and Cumberland counties between them are home to 38% of the population of the state, and they list heavily to port. So in a state-wide election, it doesn't much matter what the other 14 counties do: they can't overwhelm the Dem dominance in these two counties. I want to be wrong. I hope I am. But I doubt it.

As for the recently raised argument that after he wins the primary the elders will strongarm him into backing out and substitute somebody (any warm body would do, they say), Platner's self-regard is bigger than the state he claims he knows so much about. I doubt he'd withdraw. Could Collins beat him? Maybe. But we haven't yet factored in the probability of cheating in Portland come November.

Behind the Library’s experience is similar to mine: all Platner yard signs, even — especially – in the wealthier neighborhoods behind the Tofu Line, and those are usually planted in fron the most expensive homes.

As the primary draws near — June 9th (early voting began May 11th so the recent revelations of Platner’s sex posts — will have no effect on voters who have already sent in their ballots, not that they’s care about them anyway) — political discussions with liberal friends have spontaneously popped up; not on my volition, but I engage in them because I’m curious about why today’s liberal feels the way he/she/it does. And the operative word here is “feel” - there’s no real thinking going on, just a knee-jerk, reflexive reaction that’s firmly entrenched them in the most radical end of the political spectrum.

Most of those I talk with are, knowingly or unknowingly, socialists at best, and communists at worse. They reject capitalism, America, and the outdated Constitution that was designed and enacted by racist old white men specifically to protect and foster slavery. Yesterday, an acquaintance assured me that serfs of old had it better than today’s American poor because “they only worked 150 days a year, and the rest of the time they were at celebrating at church festivals and hrveat firs”.

Told that, in fact, the 100-150 number he’d been taught in school was the number of days the peasants were required to work on the land of their masters, and the rest of their time was spent trying to grow enough food for their own families, repairing their primitive hand tools, living single-room, dirt-floor shacks, and essentially starving. Infant mortality was 50%, 20% of women died in childbirth, and a serf who somehow survived to adulthood could expect to die between his 40th and 50th year. His only response to all of that? “Well, the US has one of the highest infant mortality rate among western countries” [0.05%, but don’t tell him that].

This person was, in my experience, no less educated than the average product our educational system has been spitting out over recent decades; in fact, I’d say he’s typical, 40-year-old college graduate. He intends to vote next Tuesday and so do his friends: they will not be voting for Platner’s opponent, Susan Mills.