The Magical Thinking Behind Graham Platner's Rise

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37. See post #8 for his list of endorsers, most of which consider themselves progressive.

But there is nothing "progressive" about any of this (from the OP)...

Her opponent is a former Marine, mercenary, and bartender with no political experience, and judging from the way he speaks, a similar vacuity of knowledge. He has admitted to making a series of racist, homophobic, and misogynistic remarks, even blaming rape victims, if they were drunk, for their own trauma, not as a rebellious teenager, but merely five years ago. On his chest, he has a tattoo of a “Totenkopf”—a “death skull” that became prominent in Nazi iconography. SS guards had the same skull on their uniforms. He claims that he was unaware of the history or meaning of the symbol when he got the tattoo. He was drunk, which, according to his moral philosophy, absolves him of blame, unlike women who are raped, and in his words, “should take responsibility for getting so f**ked up that they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to.”His campaign manager has resigned, claiming that the candidate was aware of the tattoo’s significance.

Not to mention of the recent use (within the last couple of weeks) of the r-word slur.