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I have plenty of exposure. It is because I know the Republicans are vile that I do not want the opposing party to embrace Platner's views or demonstrate that red-brown chuddishness are not electoral liabilities.

Platner isn't running on a fascist agenda so I'm not sure where the red brown alliance comes from. He says LESS fascist stuff than many moderate Democrats lol

If Platner was coming out and saying "actually Trump is getting stuff right on trans people and immigrants" you'd have a point but he's not (unlike some moderate Dems)

1. He's a gun nut so don't count on him trying to stop kids from being killed in schools 2. Nazi tattoo for 20 years he continuously lied and continues to lie about.

Simple question: Do you think he’ll vote for a Democrat to be majority leader and thus make Democrats committee chairs?

We've had literal former KKK members as Senate Democrats and no I don't think that helped Republicans make the argument of "actually Democrats are the real racists"

"it's fine, we've had kkk members decades ago" isn't really the flex you think it is. What you're really saying is "it doesn't matter if they're Nazis or Klukers, as long as they vote with us" also, the fact the DNC can't raise money against trump is a pretty big problem.

The idea that the DNC can't raise money is because of Platner is so ridiculous its not even worth engaging

An argument to have with specific states who either can't field better candidates, or better candidates who can't get their message out. For Maine (!), at this point and barring some risky ranked-vote strategy maybe, it's either vote for the known Trump entity, or the alternative. Sucks but is.

Not pyrrhic if we get to block lifetime SCOTUS appointments, actually.

I sincerely do not think he will block them. Hell, I expect him to vote to confirm.

You'll have a 2 year window to block SCOTUS and hope neither dies after that because we have more elections in 2 years. Only hope is structure court reform which requires a coalition you can't build with a Nazi in your ranks.

If you think Platner is a *literal* Nazi, waiting to show his true colors until the moment he wins, then I think your point is valid, just like someone who thought Harris was *literally* responsible for a genocide was perfectly within reason to withhold their vote for Harris.