Rick Wilson on Platner:

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131. Wtf is going on?

It’s genuinely sad to watch. The very values we claim distinguish us from the other side — believing women, rejecting extremist symbolism, holding our own accountable — are being quietly shelved the moment someone points out they apply here too.
We spent years saying character matters. We said it about Al Franken, and many on this forum meant it. Now some of those same voices are telling us that asking the same questions about Platner is “helping Collins” or “ratfucking.” That’s not principle — that’s tribalism.
The argument that crippling Republican power justifies suspending our standards isn’t new. It’s the same logic that’s been used to silence legitimate concerns about Democratic candidates for decades. And every time we accept it, we erode a little more of what we said we stood for.
If these allegations were about a Republican candidate, this thread would look very different. We all know it.
Maine has ranked choice voting and other Democrats on the ballot. Nobody is being asked to hand Collins a win. They’re being asked to apply the same scrutiny we demand of everyone else — and that used to be something Democrats were proud to do.