If you haven't read Brad Slager's article about Graham Platner being the poster child for the Democrat Party's hypocrisy, I can't recommend you head over there enough.
After you read this one, of course.
As Slager points out very well, the same party that sought out their fainting couches the moment Elon Musk waved his hand in the air an inch too close to the way the tiny mustache brigade is now the same party that doesn't think having an actual Nazi tattoo and being a fan of neo-Nazi's (according to his own social media) is that big of a deal.
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To be clear, Platner is guilty of way more than just being a little too friendly to Nazi ideology, but his love of communism and participation in pedophilic apps is likely something the left approves of, and rounds out the edges on the guy nicely.
But the one thing they can't tolerate is rape.
Or, at least, they can't tolerate it if your chances of winning an election are flushed down the toilet. When you have a bit of momentum and pose a threat to a Republican, then raping someone is just like the Nazi tattoo. In fact, pretty much anything gross and awful in this world is pardonable by the left if you're useful, once again cementing my claim that the Democrat Party's unofficial motto is "It's okay when we do it."
The truth about Platner is that he stopped being useful. He became something of a liability after too much heat had come his way, and that's when the rape accusation struck.
As my colleague Rusty Weiss noted, the rape accusation's sudden appearance wasn't serendipitous. It was withheld by the accuser because she liked his politics:
“One of the reasons I didn’t come forward sooner was, the huge moral conflict that I had between supporting his politics, but not supporting him as a person,” she said. “I just want the truth out there. I just want people to have a whole scope of who he is as a person.”
Racicot is very clear that this alignment in political beliefs is only "one of the reasons" she delayed coming forward sooner. But that hesitation—letting shared ideology factor into whether or when to speak up about a violent crime—is a clear example of the liberal mind virus at work.
This begs the question, at least to me: Would this accusation have come out if Platner was going strong in the race? Would it have come out if the Democrats thought he had a chip and a chair's chance at the very least?
Here's what I do know.
Democrats love them some rape allegations. They bring forward accusations against Republicans all the time, and these accusations always seem to surface whenever the Republican in question gets a little too popular. Trump's had his fair share, and Pete Hegseth had one lobbed against him that was also unproven, though Hegseth reports sex did happen and was entirely consensual.
The rape accusation is a really clever weapon because it's one of those topics where merely questioning it can make you look like you're siding with the rapist.
The issue is that Democrats have abused rape accusations for so long now that the accusation of rape has been dulled, and I find that to be pretty awful. A rape isn't something that should be brushed aside because of the heinous nature of the act. The thing is, the Democrats have made it so that whenever one comes down the line, it's harder to take seriously.
Did Graham Platner rape a woman? She says he did; he denies it. There is no definitive proof of it, at least at the time of this writing.
So if someone asks me if he did it, my honest response is going to have to be "I don't know." Partly because it hasn't been proven, of course, but also partly because the Democrats use this kind of accusation all the time, and it's gotten harder and harder for me to take it seriously. My "I don't know" has to be accompanied by a "it could just be another Democrat trick."
And the fact that the Democrats' abuse of the event has made an accusation like that questionable in and of itself is disgusting and shameful.
What has been proven is that rape accusations don't matter to the Democrats until, like everything else, they can be used as a tool to help them.
