Maine Dem Senate Candidate Tells People to Harass Lawmakers Who Oppose “Medicare for All”
Nazi-Tattoo-Bearing Candidates doing Nazi-Tattoo-Bearing Things.
The last time Legal Insurrection readers reported on the Democratic candidate for Maine’s U.S. Senate seat, Graham Platner, his campaign manager fled the campaign to “spend more time with family” after it was revealed that the political hopeful had Nazi symbolism as body art.
Mainers should consider this a rare moment of truth in political advertising. Platner recently urged his supporters to publicly harass members of Maine’s congressional delegation who oppose Medicare for All.
During a town hall event in Windham, Maine, Platner stated that to advance progressive policies, his supporters must be willing to “impose costs” on lawmakers who don’t support the initiative. Free Beacon contributor Jessica Costescu has the details:
“We need to be able to turn people out to flood their offices. Frankly, I want people to follow them around and don’t let them have a public dinner without getting yelled at. Because that’s power. That’s real power.”
Platner justified those tactics as a way of building “secondary power.” He said they’re a proven form of political pressure and that “American history tells us that that’s exactly the power that we have.”
“We also have to build secondary power. Real power of organization, the power to turn people out, the power to shut things down, frankly, the power to impose costs,” Platner said. “If we can’t impose costs, then they’ll never listen to us, because they won’t care.”
Platner has made Medicare for All a centerpiece of his campaign. His economic platform also calls for a major expansion of Social Security benefits—including the elimination of the payroll tax cap—a “billionaire minimum tax,” and steep increases in capital gains and corporate taxes. He’s said he wants to use “the tax code to get the money back that was stolen from the working people of this country.”
I am among the many citizen activists who became active in 2009 and 2010, hoping to prevent the passage of Obamacare. Many of us warned that Obamacare was designed to be a spectacular failure… functional only to direct more money to the health insurance companies and forcing a collapse of the imperfect, but mostly functional, American healthcare system.
Clearly, the push for the monstrosity of the single-payer system continues, and “Medicare for All” is just another step on the road to experiencing the perks of a nationalized healthcare system… like those “enjoyed” by Canada and the United Kingdom. The good news is that President Donald Trump is attempting to erase that particular Obama-era legacy before it can cause even more havoc.
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— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 23, 2025
What are Platner’s current chances for Senatorial success? A University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll shows Platner leading Gov. Janet Mills in the Democratic Senate primary, with Platner drawing majority support among likely Democratic primary voters and especially strong backing from socialists, progressives, and younger voters.
In terms of the General Election, if the election were held today, polls indicate that Platner would beat Maine’s current U.S. Senator, Susan Collins.
The Maine People’s Resource Center (MPRC) survey found Platner leading Collins 45% to 42%, while Gov. Janet Mills would trail Collins 42% to 46% in a head-to-head matchup. The Democratic primary remains close, with 41% backing Platner and 39% supporting Mills. When second-choice preferences from former candidate Jordan Wood are reallocated, Platner’s lead widens to 53% to 47%.
The poll also found widespread frustration with Collins’ record — 51% of voters said they disapprove of her handling of the shutdown and her stance on health care subsidies, compared to just 28.4% who approve. Disapproval was high across both congressional districts and among voters of all backgrounds, including 57% of moderates.
However, that election is slightly less than a year away. That is an eternity in political time, especially at the speed both the new media and Trump move. And certainly enough time to see if Platner has even more inner-Nazi to reveal, be it on the skin or in the heart.
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Just great, another leftist nut job with dreams of omnipotent power.
Go for it Maine!
Not only that he may actually be a nazi, Sure. Why not. Elect him. It will certainly liven up the senate and its democratic congress. Why elect a muslin when you can elect a nazi nutjob.
we gave you susan collins, angus king, jared golden and chellie pingree. what more do you all want from us…..
Sanity?
unpossible up here it seems…
According to someone who was based at Loring back in the day, He once commented it was so quiet up there you could here the genes crunch.
His wife was a social worker and said it wasn’t uncommon to have a girl who was pregnant by her father, or her brother.
Decades ago, there was an advertising campaign for an automobile brand that’s no longer made. The slogan was this is not your father‘s Oldsmobile.
A variation would be Democrats: not the part of Scoop Jackson, Hubert Humphrey, or William Proxmire.
Not even William Cohen or Ed Muskie or George Mitchell.
This is the new generation of Olds!
I had an Oldsmobile. I miss it.
My family has a history of killing off car brands. If our family buys one or more, the brand dies.
Oldsmobile
Hudson
Plymouth
De Soto
Studebaker
Pontiac
Panhard
Simca
AMC
Mercury
Sunbeam
Jaguar (soon to die)
Morris
Ironically, that campaign is blamed for cratering the brand. Let’s hope the Democrats will be as lucky,
I think what killed Olds was when GM homogenized their product line. When each division had their own engines, PowerGlides, HydraMatics, or Dynaflow transmissions, distinct styling, subtile suspension varieties, etc, the divisions stood on their own.
By the time Olds died, the Cutlass was a Celebrity was a 6000 was a Century. Except for badging and a few body stampings and different dashboards, they were the same car.
An office-mate of mine set out to buy a new Pontiac 6000 with a particular engine and “sport” package. He went to a small town dealer that sold the entire GM line except for Cadillac. He ended up saving a few bucks going into an identically equipped Chevy Celebrity.
And don’t forget what GM did to trash the reputation of Cadillac, such as the Cimarron.
I remember the Cimarron. But I also remember the car that helped bring them back. My mother bought a Cadillac CTS when they first came out. I later bought it from her when she got another car. It was by far the finest road car I’ve ever driven in my entire life.
Won’t it be grand when regular order in Congress gets tossed out by a crop of young fascist-socialist hotheads who use public intimidation and violence to get their way rather than compromise. The End of the Republic will be nigh.
With their Starbucks putsch.
“No soy Adolf, amiga!”
And don’t forget what GM did to trash the reputation of Cadillac, such as the Cimarron.
In fairness the establishment hasn’t followed regular order for the budget but once in something like four decades so…
Two things.
I thought harassment was a crime. Is it?
What is so wrong with raising the payroll cap to save Social Security.
Absolutely nothing. The payroll cap is 176K. Just remove it. I’m not sure it is sufficient to save social security though. Medicare is the program that is most in trouble though.
Probably necessary to salvage the system, though that will blow away the pretense that Social Security is saving for one’s own retirement. Congress continues to ignore an entirely predictable collapse which becomes more difficult to avert every day.
The pretense got blown away long ago when they started expanding the program.
The problem with removing the cap is that it also severs the public perception that Social Security benefits paid out to the beneficiaries are directly linked/correspond to the amount of the Social Security taxes each beneficiary has personally paid in over their working age lifetime.
Many folks still believe that there’s an account, a ‘lockbox’
that contains ‘their’ SSA taxes earning interest and waiting for them to retire to be sent to them. That’s never been true but the Propaganda effort to create that sort of perception was wildly successful.
IMO in a decade ish when the last of the accumulated excess SSA tax dollars sold to Treasury are redeemed and only current SSA taxes remain to support benefit payments then we’ll get a reform. With a cut of 20-25% in SSA benefits there’s gonna be enough public pressure to finally get it reformed. I suspect there’s gonna be a single universal benefit amount as the ‘standard’ SSA payment but based on a full time 2000 hours a year working life of fifty years. Every year someone didn’t work full-time then add those years up and subject the % from the ‘standard’ benefit payment. Probably something around $1500 per month in today’s $. The disabled will not be penalized for the years they qualified for SSDI but almost certainly say goodbye to ‘Spousal Benefit’ claims for any new retirees and likely for existing retirees. Unless we’ve moved to a true flat tax and put Social Security ‘on budget’ the earnings cap will go away and the tax rates will increase OR everyone lays back takes a 20%-25% haircut on benefits. Younger generation cohorts still in the workforce ain’t gonna accept higher taxes and less benefits for themselves while older generations get paid in full. Unless there’s shared sacrifice across every generation to reach a workable compromise reform will be very messy. FWIW Gen X and younger have already built in the projected 20%-25% cut into their planning so any reform is gonna have to improve their situation or they’ll likely fight against it.
However far left you might think Maine is you are not even close.
The progressives, especially in southern Maine near Portland, are especially zealous and pretty darned mean about it.
This (redacted) will win not in spite of his beliefs, but because of them.
Probably necessary to salvage the system, though that will blow away the pretense that Social Security is saving for one’s own retirement. Congress continues to ignore an entirely predictable collapse which becomes more difficult to avert every day.
Merge Maine back into Massachusetts. (Sorry for the duplicate comment).
Nazi tattoo guy advocates brown shirt behavior and people are shocked?
Everyone thought Hitler faked his death and moved to Argentina. Or had sons raised in Brazil. It looks like instead he has a son raised in Maine. Not a bad painter but an Oysterman, and still a nazi through and through.
I wonder if these Medicare-for-all people know that Medicare is not free, The are deductibles and copays along with monthly charges for Part B and a genuine need for Part C (private) coverages. I suppose they will want all of us to cover that for those who make less than 100k.
Annually billions of dollars are stolen by real or fake Medicare and Medicaid providers. I think that half the Mercedes I see on the road are paid for by illegal medical billing.
How about we make an effort to clean up the programs before they are expanded.