Can anyone give me a good explanation as to why the Democratic Party hates Graham Platner so much?
I’m not interested in personal attitudes or why the left should dislike him, but more why the DNC seems to loathe him so much. I get why they hate Zohran or Bernie, they aren’t part of the party infrastructure, they genuinely seem to hold Left-wing economic principles, they present a threat to Dem control of leftwing/progressive voters, but Platner is the most milquetoast version of left populism you could imagine. Like just take the W and call it a day already. I do not understand why they can’t stand him, maybe his mild critique of israeli policy in Gaza?(his stepbrother works for the Jerusalem Post btw) Maybe him vaguely calling out “the oligarchy”?(Bernie, AOC, Warren have been doing a half assed version of this for years, so who cares?) Are they doing some sort of 4-D chess to make it seem like they can’t stand him? Is it just that it’s a senate seat and he’s not the anointed one as per DNC tradition? Why is the DNC resurrecting the ghost of J. Edgar Hoover to hunt down every sordid detail of this dudes life, like, what am I missing here? He’s literally just going to fall into line, even if he doesn’t, the man is not Lenin, so why do they give a shit?