The Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner has absorbed enough oppo research to kill half a dozen healthy candidacies. Among the stream of revelations, Platner has called himself a Communist, hinted at political violence, labeled all cops bastards, broadly described rural white people as racist and stupid, downplayed sexual assault, and mocked gay people.

He recently covered and apologized for a skull-and-crossbones tattoo associated with the Nazi SS, claiming he hadn’t been aware of its political connotations. There is a famous comedy sketch in which an SS officer, finally noticing in the final stages of war that SS caps feature “little pictures of skulls,” is moved to wonder: “Are we the baddies?” The joke is that it took until 1945 for this Nazi to grasp the symbolism of the

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