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The resurfaced online posts from Maine Democrat Graham Platner are the sort of disgrace that should end a political career before it starts. Video commentary he celebrated and a 2019 Reddit post where he wrote that a wounded soldier “didn’t deserve to live” show a contempt for service that is both shocking and unforgivable.
The soldier Platner mocked, Pfc. Ted Daniels, is a Purple Heart recipient who survived being shot four times while doing the hard, dangerous work that protects our freedoms — yet Platner reacted with ridicule instead of respect. That crude, dehumanizing tone came from a deleted account Platner has acknowledged owning, which makes the episode more than a tumbleweed of internet nastiness; it reveals character.
When Fox News Digital asked Platner about the post, he ducked responsibility and declined to offer a straight apology, instead pointing to his own service and claiming others were slandering him. That answer — a veteran refusing to apologize to a fellow wounded veteran — is galling and shows how the left’s culture of excuse protects its own even when they trash the very people who bleed for America.
Fox’s The Big Weekend Show didn’t let Platner off the hook, and conservative voices like Joey Jones rightly tore into the candidate for “hiding behind the Purple Hearts” of others while mocking a wounded hero. Americans from every political stripe should be disgusted to see sanctimony from someone who denigrates veterans while running for high office.
This latest outrage is not an isolated slip; it’s part of a package of deleted Reddit posts and ugly online behavior that have surfaced around Platner, and liberal leaders have been remarkably quiet as the story unfolds. The pattern of crude, inflammatory commentary — and the Democratic establishment’s unwillingness to confront it — exposes a double standard that voters must punish at the ballot box.
If conservatives and patriots care about honoring our troops and restoring basic decency to public life, we must make noise, hold our opponents accountable, and remind the country that respect for sacrifice is not a partisan checkbox. Maine voters should ask themselves whether they want a senator who mocks wounded warriors or someone who stands with the men and women who put their lives on the line for America.
