Maine Democrats replaced one sleazy bigot with another

In the NFL, savvy teams oftentimes seek out a backup quarterback whose play style mirrors that of their starter — the idea being that in the event of an injury, their offense can continue to operate as it’s meant to.Maine Democrats have followed a similar course by tapping one sleazy, antisemitic goon to replace another.After the long-foreshadowed implosion of Graham Platner’s campaign for US Senate this summer, progressives demanded that he be replaced by a candidate just as regressive and demagogic.They found their man in Troy Jackson, the former president of Maine’s state senate who had been easily dispatched in the party’s gubernatorial primary earlier that summer.A former moderate who had taken a sharp left turn in recent years, Jackson quickly picked up where his Nazi-tattoo-clad predecessor left off.“Anybody with eyes and a heart knows the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza,” asserted Jackson one day after Platner dropped out.Translation: “How do you do, fellow kids?”Jackson is a charmless mediocrity lacking in both political talent and a moral center.In embracing the left’s unhealthy obsession with the world’s only Jewish-majority state — not to mention the Middle East’s only liberal democracy — he saw an opportunity to excite the Democratic base by signaling that he would carry Platner’s fallen tiki torch across the finish line.But then again, this fixation would appear to come naturally to an ogre who allegedly pushed around his ex-girlfriend and chucked a water bottle in the direction of a female colleague.“It’s unfortunate that there are people here in Maine that don’t like to use that term only because they’re Jewish and what that means to them, with the Holocaust,” Jackson told Portland’s NBC News affiliate on Tuesday, as he complained about the refusal to call Israel’s war against Hamas a “genocide.” But he insisted that the Gaza war “fits that description and it is.It’s [an] unbeliev...