cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38323356
Oct. 31, 2025, 5:02 a.m. ET Michelle Goldberg
Andy O’Brien, a former Democratic state legislator and newspaper editor, told me that outsiders didn’t fully understand how radicalizing the second Trump presidency has been for ordinary Democrats. Even senior citizens, he said, were becoming “fire-breathing leftists. They’re just pissed off.”
These voters understood that Platner had made mistakes, but they saw him as a fighter. “Five years ago, he would have been dead in the water, I think,” said O’Brien, who now works with the labor movement. “But this is such an unprecedented time. I think a lot of people really believe that we need somebody who can effectively fight against fascism.”
Maine is an overwhelmingly white state, but it’s not just white guys who feel this way. “We’re sticking by him,” said Safiya Khalid, a Somali American activist and former member of the Lewiston City Council.
Explain what you just said
Seems pretty obvious. He’s admitted to making racist, anti-semetic, anti-gay, and anti-trans statements. And yet he refuses to back down after admitting to all of that somehow shows his ‘character.’
The guy has a litany of reasons to not support him, or trust him. A pile of reasons to think he is of bad character and morals. But ‘he tells it like is,’ so y’all refuse to condemn him. Sounds like Trump supporters to me, always denying his previous transgressions and saying you believe he’s gonna turn it around.
No, he did not.
Link to those please.
https://wgme.com/news/local/graham-platner-asked-why-black-people-dont-tip-and-referenced-rape-in-old-reddit-posts-social-media-maine-democrats-senate-race-republicans-susan-collins-janet-mills
https://www.advocate.com/politics/graham-platner-homophobic-posts
Literally, NOT what you are claiming. You are just mentioning a link about someone else mentioning a reddit comment with zero clarifying comments or Platner himself being asked to clarify or comment on them…
https://www.metroweekly.com/2025/10/graham-platner-apologizes-anti-lgbtq-posts/
Edit- are you seriously saying we need clarification on him asking why a race doesn’t tip?