Will Graham Platners Jewish conspiracy theories consume the Democratic Party?

Whenever he gets in trouble — which is pretty often — Graham Platner has a ready response: It’s the Jews!OK, he mostly just says “AIPAC,” and waves at Benjamin Netanyahu ultimately calling the shots, but he’s still making it sound like an international Jewish conspiracy.The Democratic candidate for a Maine US Senate seat has been hit by reports he has a history of abusing women, revelations that he long (and until last month) maintained an active profile on the “Kik” predator app, plus his own admissions to sexting multiple women since his 2023 wedding.All of it after he inked over his decades-old Totenkopf tattoo.Sen.

John Fetterman last week slammed his fellow Democrats for defending this guy, listing off all the ugliness, including the Nazi tat; Platner responded: “You’ve become a stooge for AIPAC.”Of course, that’s also what he says about his GOP opponent, Sen.Susan Collins, though he has to tell massive whoppers about how much AIPAC money she’s received to justify it.Nationally, the Democrats have gone blind, deaf and dumb to the sort of thing they used to call “dog whistles,” but which in this case are blaring sirens and lights flashing “JEWS JEWS JEWS.”Blind or complicit: Platner’s key guest at his rally last Saturday was Rep.

Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), one of the richest members of Congress, who came to Bar Harbor to defend Graham and rail about the fabled “Epstein Class.”The Epstein Class, a group originally named — but never defined — by Khanna, refers to a shadowy cabal of pedophiles who evidently run the country for nefarious purposes.The term may not be explicitly antisemitic; you can consider it just a coincidence that it all plays off Jeffrey Epstein’s evil ..

.but consider how Khanna praised Platner for “telling the truth about the billionaire class, about the Epstein class, about AIPAC, about foreign wars.”Vile as Jeffrey Epstein was, he and his circle had nothing to do with promoting “foreign wars,...