{"id":4027,"date":"2026-07-09T04:12:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4027"},"modified":"2026-07-09T04:12:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:12:03","slug":"miranda-devine-slimy-dems-the-party-of-me-too-show-their-true-colors-in-graham-platner-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4027","title":{"rendered":"Miranda Devine: Slimy Dems — the party of Me Too — show their true colors in Graham Platner scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The party of Me Too has shown its true face in the rolling Graham Platner scandal.<\/p>\n

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Now that a liberal woman has credibly accused him of rape, the rats have deserted the sinking ship and the Democrat-endorsed US Senate candidate for Maine has dropped out.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s \u201cMe Too\u201d late to save face.<\/p>\n

Conservatives always knew the left\u2019s effort to assert moral superiority on matters of sex, race and ideology were play-acting but now it\u2019s undeniable for even their most blinkered supporters.<\/p>\n

The Democratic Party\u2019s defense of Platner to the bitter end against an avalanche of rape and sexual abuse allegations, not to mention his Nazi tattoo, has left them exposed as hypocrites.<\/p>\n

They weaponize moral outrage against the right while rationalizing far worse on their own side.<\/p>\n

They waved away reports of Platner\u2019s issues with women when they first surfaced two months ago in the form of Reddit posts in which he downplayed sexual assault and suggested victims had themselves to blame if they got drunk. <\/p>\n

These disturbing comments were dismissed as old and irrelevant, and were excused on the pretext that Platner was suffering from PTSD, an insult to military veterans who don\u2019t treat rape like a legitimate spoil of masculinity.<\/p>\n

In any case, Platner, 41, wrote the posts a decade ago when he was old enough to know better.<\/p>\n

Sen. John Fetterman was the lone voice in the Democratic Party calling out Platner from the start as a \u201ccreep\u201d and \u201cdirtbag.\u201d <\/p>\n

Fetterman dubbed him \u201cP Hustle,\u201d the name Platner used on Kik, a grooming messaging app for underage kids where he sent explicit messages for a decade, and as recently as last year.<\/p>\n

\u2018Good, decent man\u2019?<\/h2>\n

When Platner was revealed to have cheated on his new wife by sexting at least six women after getting married in 2023, Democrats said he was \u201ca good, decent man who\u2019s struggled and grown.\u201d<\/p>\n

A month ago, when The New York Times published its soft-soap catch-and-kill story in which multiple ex-girlfriends euphemistically described \u201cunsettling\u201d encounters with Platner, including physical intimidation, Democrats again excused Platner by attacking a victim, conservative Lyndsey Fifield. <\/p>\n

The Times chose to highlight Fifield while burying the graphic rape claim of another alleged victim, Jenny Racicot, a liberal ex-girlfriend of Platner who might have attracted more sympathy from their readers.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeems like a lot of nothing,\u201d Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said of the Times\u2019 piece.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only one who had anything to say that seemed unsettling was a woman who works for right-wing political operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

By design, as Fifield would later bitterly complain.<\/p>\n

It was that betrayal by the Times that persuaded Racicot to come forward again this week to catalog her shocking rape claim. <\/p>\n

She alleged to Politico and CNN that a drunken Platner entered her rural home uninvited one night in 2021, grabbed her pelvis and forcibly raped her despite her repeated pleas for him to stop.<\/p>\n

The vaunted Times \u2014 the media outlet that most energetically prosecuted the Me Too explosion in the last decade \u2014 has equally been exposed for staggering hypocrisy.<\/p>\n

Times reporter Jodi Kantor, who won a Pulitzer for her Me Too takedowns, opined to CNN last month that Platner wasn\u2019t guilty of Me Too infractions because \u201cthey were mostly made in the context of consensual relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s OK then.<\/p>\n

It was this kind of endorsement from the gatekeepers of left-wing morality that allowed Platner to stay in the race \u2014 until Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Every week<\/em>, Post columnist Miranda Devine sits down for exclusive and candid conversations with the most influential disruptors in Washington on \u2018Pod Force One.\u2019 Subscribe here!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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