Democrats civil war is blazing now the GOP will feast

The Democratic Party is at war with itself — and in Maine, the fight has spilled into the open.Graham Platner, an alleged rapist with a Nazi tattoo on his chest, won the Democratic nomination for United States Senate last month, beating the candidate the party establishment had recruited by a commanding 53-point margin.For months, Republicans and others had warned that Platner was unfit for the job.The Democrats did not care.As soon as party leaders saw polling that suggested he could beat Republican Sen.Susan Collins in November they embraced him, hosting him in Washington, DC, and pledging as much campaign cash as he needed.His baggage didn’t matter.

His poll numbers did.Then the numbers turned, and Platner’s lead collapsed into a dead heat.That’s when fresh allegations of Platner’s monstrous behavior toward women appeared to confirm what Republicans had been saying for months — and within hours, the man Democrats had celebrated as their rising star became radioactive.So the machine moved in for the kill — yanking endorsements, choking off the money, threatening to abandon the Maine Senate race entirely unless he got out.Within days, the nominee Maine Democrats had chosen was gone, run out of his own campaign by the very same people who had gladly leaped on his bandwagon before its wheels came off.But erasing Platner was only half the job.Now comes the real pickle: deciding who replaces him.And the Democratic establishment has no intention of letting the voters anywhere near that choice.Maine’s next Democratic nominee for US Senate will be picked in a backroom in just two weeks, crowned by a few hundred party insiders at a convention the public never voted for.The candidates fighting for the seat currently aren’t even required to debate each other.Maine voters who poured their time, money and passion into this race will be handed a nominee and told to clap.If that sounds familiar, it should — this is the same party that in 2024 shoved P...