Whats the next Platner surprise, electing vets to fight polarization and other commentary

Graham Platner was sold to “Mainers and the national media” as “an antiwar Marine during the Iraq War, a hardscrabble oysterman, and a working-class straight talker,” grumbles National Review’s Jeffrey Blehar.“And then, one by one, we discovered that each of these biographical points were, when not outright false, distorted beyond all recognition.” Platner wasn’t anti-war: He “volunteered” because he wanted “to kill some people” — and “later signed up with Blackwater as a mercenary.” His “oyster farm’s biggest customer is his mother.” Plus, his “Nazi death’s head” tattoo “would have instantly disqualified him from running for office in any sane world.”Now we learn that, just “months before he declared his candidacy,” Platner’s wife caught him “juggling six separate sexting relationships” on the teen app Kik.“What are we about to find out next about Graham Platner?”Facing “evidence of deepening political divisions” in Congress, veteran Rye Barcott fights back via With Honor, which “has elected dozens of veterans to Congress across both parties, with an explicit commitment to promote bipartisan policies and cooperation,” cheers Douglas E.

Schoen at The Hill.The resulting For Country Caucus includes 40 veterans in Congress, pledged to “help address the divisive political polarization tearing our country apart.” There’s a “critical lesson that veterans know well, but too many Americans have forgotten: There is much more that unites us as a nation than divides us.” From 1965-’75, 70% of Congress were veterans; now it’s just 23%.

So “it is hard to think of a force that is more sorely lacking and desperately needed in American politics today” than With Honor’s work.Chuck Schumer’s vow to make Supreme Court justices “pay the price” for having “released the whirlwind” took a new turn with a “swatting” stunt called in on Justice Amy Comey Barrett’s home, notes The Federa...