{"id":2613362,"date":"2026-06-11T09:11:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/with-graham-platner-democrats-discover-their-new-political-motto-vote-for-the-nazi\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T09:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:13:15","slug":"with-graham-platner-democrats-discover-their-new-political-motto-vote-for-the-nazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/with-graham-platner-democrats-discover-their-new-political-motto-vote-for-the-nazi\/","title":{"rendered":"With Platner, Dems Discover Their Motto: Vote For The Nazi"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwith-graham-platner-democrats-discover-their-new-political-motto-vote-for-the-nazi%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2613362&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text argues that, despite public commitments to oppose extremism, many Democrats are willing to back Maine senate nominee Graham Platner even though he has ties to Nazi\/white-supremacist beliefs. It draws a parallel to the 1991 Louisiana gubernatorial election, where supporters used the bumper sticker \u201cVOTE FOR THE CROOK: IT\u2019S VITAL\u201d to justify choosing between two disliked candidates-one associated with corruption and the other with the Ku Klux Klan-so they could defeat the option.<\/p>\n<p>the author claims that, years later, democrats are responding in a similar \u201clesser of two evils\u201d way: Platner is described as having had a Nazi tattoo for years (with prior acquaintances contradicting his explanation), and Democrats are portrayed as rationalizing their continued support because he is seen as the only way to beat Republican Sen. Susan Collins and, indirectly, block President Trump\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The piece concludes by criticizing the idea of voting mainly to oppose rather than to support, and suggests that Collins\u2019s side could adapt the old \u201cless critically importent\u201d bumper-sticker logic to highlight perceived hypocrisy and demand higher standards from candidates.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As more and more revelations come to the fore about Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, who just won the Democrat primary this week, many Democrats seem to have adopted a simple mantra regarding his campaign: <em>Vote for the Nazi: It\u2019s important<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The saying echoes a slogan from campaigns past \u2014 one that supporters of Republican Sen. Susan Collins, Platner\u2019s opponent in the general election, would do well to employ against Platner. The slogan demonstrates how Democrats will embrace a candidate \u2014 <em>any<\/em> candidate \u2014 so long as that person opposes President Trump.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>(In-)Famous Bumper Sticker<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Nearly two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/apathy-is-the-biggest-threat-to-medicare-and-the-federal-budget\/\" title=\"Neglect Poses a Major Risk to Medicare and the Federal Budget\">score years ago<\/a>, a peculiar campaign in that most peculiar of political states, Louisiana, produced a slogan for the ages. In 1991, incumbent Gov. Buddy Roemer ran for reelection, months after switching his party registration from Democrat to Republican. The party switch, coupled with actions Roemer took in office, angered constituents so much that he finished third in the state\u2019s all-party primary. Instead, the top two vote-getters in the primary advanced to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-pick-herschel-walker-beating-sen-warnock-in-georgia-senate-race-poll\/\" title=\"Trump-pick Herschel Walker beating Sen. Warnock in Georgia Senate race: Poll\">general election runoff<\/a>: former Democrat Gov. Edwin Edwards, who was widely viewed as corrupt, and David Duke, the founder of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who ran as a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with a choice between a corrupt politician (one who eventually was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/10-years-in-prison-for-ex-louisiana-gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">convicted on corruption charges<\/a> in 2000) and a Klansman associated with neo-Nazis, Roemer supporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstribune.com\/news\/2021\/jul\/18\/In-viral-bumper-sticker-man-summed-up-1991-governo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kirby Newburger<\/a> came up with a catchy bumper sticker that signified Edwards as the proverbial lesser of two evils: \u201cVOTE FOR THE CROOK: IT\u2019S IMPORTANT.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bumper sticker, coupled with general disgust at the thought of Louisiana electing an avowed Klansman as governor, meant Edwards ran away with the runoff, winning over 61 percent of the vote to Duke\u2019s 39 percent.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Roles Reversed<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Three and a half decades later, and now Democrats are the ones with the statewide candidate with ties to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-dhs-signals-intent-criminalize-political-dissent\/\" title=\"Biden&#039;s DHS Signals Intent Criminalize Political Dissent\">white supremacist beliefs<\/a>. Platner had a Nazi tattoo on his chest for years; while he claims he did not know the symbol\u2019s origins, people who knew him before his political career have contradicted this assertion, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/trqWT\">saying<\/a> Platner \u201cwould joke about it being a Nazi tattoo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet consider just some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/06\/05\/platner-democrats-maine-tuesday-primary-00952432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/06\/04\/platner-democrats-furious-new-york-times-report-00951496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">quotes by Democrats<\/a> and their allies attempting to rationalize their continued support for a candidate with Nazi ink and a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/trqWT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">documented history<\/a> of abusive behavior toward women:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cSeveral donors I know are still all-in for Platner because he\u2019s not Susan Collins and he\u2019s a Democrat.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe don\u2019t care. I think that\u2019s the case for many donors. Anybody who beats Susan Collins will do.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHe was a mean boyfriend when he got out of the military and was drinking. Susan Collins was the defining vote for the Big Beautiful Bill. \u2026 They just want to defeat him. They just want to make sure that the <em>status quo<\/em> remains in place. \u2026 I think the fight\u2019s worth having.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>And then there\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BernieSanders\/status\/2063351893548524010?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sen. Bernie Sanders<\/a>: \u201cWe cannot continue to allow the Republican Party to control the Senate and push forward Trump\u2019s oligarchic and authoritarian agenda. And there is only one candidate who will do something about it. That candidate is Graham Platner.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These activists will support someone \u2014 <em>anyone<\/em> \u2014 who will help them defeat Collins in the Senate campaign and, by extension, Donald Trump. In their rush to stand up to President Trump\u2019s alleged fascist tendencies, they are willing to support \u2026 an actual fascist, or at least someone with a fascist tattoo on his chest.<\/p>\n<p>Or, to put their position more simply: <em>Vote for the Nazi: It\u2019s important<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u2018Lesser of Two Evils<\/strong>\u2018<\/h2>\n<p>I have never understood the concept of casting a vote solely to <em>oppose<\/em> someone, rather than voting only for such candidate(s) I can affirmatively support. Of course, as a registered Republican living in the District of Columbia, my vote won\u2019t come close to deciding any election while I live in Washington, giving me a luxury of conscience that people elsewhere don\u2019t have.<\/p>\n<p>That said, Collins, or a group allied with her, could do worse than to reprise and adapt the slogan from the 1991 Louisiana runoff to use against Platner. Perhaps this admitted act of trolling would remind Democrats, and all of us, that we should expect a modicum of decency from candidates who seek to represent us in public office.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      Chris Jacobs is founder and CEO of Juniper Research Group and author of the book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1645720020\">The Case Against Single Payer<\/a>.&#8221; He is on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisjacobsHC\">@chrisjacobsHC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As revelations grow about Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, many Democrats follow a simple rule: *\u201cVote for the Nazi: it\u2019s important.\u201d*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":2613363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/platner.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3933,4919,16217,5894,81184],"class_list":["post-2613362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dems","tag-history","tag-nazis","tag-politics","tag-voterrights"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/platner.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2613362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2613366,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613362\/revisions\/2613366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2613363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}