The View's co-hosts spent part of Tuesday working through some very complicated feelings about Graham Platner, the Democrat running to unseat Susan Collins in Maine. Platner comes with a lot of baggage: the Nazi SS symbol tattooed on his chest for years, a history of allegedly sending sexually explicit messages to multiple women while married, and a documented appetite for porta-potties that made even the cast of daytime television squirm. So how does a panelist at The View square all that with a vote? You don't square it. You just shrug and pull the lever anyway.
Sunny Hostin admitted she'd been wrestling with the decision. "Yesterday, I was sort of on the fence," she said. "I'm like, 'Character matters, morals matter. I can't believe that this is the person in Maine to take on Susan Collins.'" I guess the fence is gone now, because she came up with an excuse to back Platner anyway: "Democrats have to take over the Senate. They have to take over the House. They have to bring some semblance of normalcy back to this government." Thus, she concluded, "If I lived in Maine, I would hold my nose, and I would pull that lever and vote for him. That's it."
So, clearly, character matters… right up until it doesn't.
Democrats have spent years calling Donald Trump a Nazi, a fascist, a threat to democracy itself. They've built a huge, convoluted narrative about the moral rot of the Republican Party. They've claimed common gestures are Nazi salutes just to attack anyone they deem an enemy.
And now, when one of their own candidates spent years walking around with a Nazi SS symbol literally inked onto his chest, Hostin's answer is to hold her nose and vote for him anyway.
The irony doesn't just write itself.
Whoopi Goldberg then played the card that the left loves to play. She went with the "both sides" card.
"All I'm saying is, I think we at some point should think about doing better on both sides," Goldberg said. This is the same rhetorical move the far left deploys every time one of their own becomes inconvenient. They played it after multiple attempts on Trump's life. They played it when Charlie Kirk was killed. They’re reaching for it again here to absolve themselves of supporting Platner.
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And just to give herself some extra cover, Goldberg claimed he didn't know what the Nazi tattoo meant. "I'll vote for the guy who says 'I didn't know,'" she said. The problem with that defense is that sources close to Platner say he did know and was, in fact, proud of it. But that evidence doesn't fit the narrative that needs to be maintained between now and Election Day in Maine, so it gets glossed over on morning television.
Sunny Hostin proclaims that she would 100% vote for Graham Platner if she lived in Maine:
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"I'm now convinced that we are -- we are really in a bad place in this country. We have to -- Democrats have to take over the Senate! They have to take over the House! They have to bring…
What Tuesday's segment on The View revealed is exactly the kind of moral flexibility the radical left pretends it doesn't have. These are the same voices who turned "Nazi" into their all-purpose political insult, and literally accused Elon Musk of giving a Nazi salute last year. And when presented with a candidate who bore an actual symbol of the Nazi SS on his body, for years, their answer is essentially to shrug and say, “Well, we gotta beat Susan Collins.”
Platner's scandals don't disappear just because Donald Trump is in the White House. They just became politically acceptable, which tells you everything about what this was ever really about.
