Not that it will surprise anyone, but the same Democrats who championed the “Believe All Women” slogan during the height of the #MeToo movement are suddenly singing a different tune amid the latest revelations about their presumptive Senate nominee from Maine, Graham Platner.
As Legal Insurrection reported, there seemingly is no red line Democrats wouldn’t cross to support Platner, whose campaign was rocked this week over a story from The New York Times, which recounted the stories of three women who had been in relationships with the Bernie Sanders-backed candidate before his marriage in late 2023. The most compelling was told by Lyndsey Fifield, a 40-year-old Virginia woman who The Times made sure to emphasize “has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns.”
Though Fifield claimed Platner “never hit me, he never punched me,” she described a pattern of physically abusive behavior during the 2015-2016 time period they were together that she alleged involved regularly grabbing her by the shoulders, which she said would leave marks, jerking her by the wrist when she wanted to be left alone, and twisting her arm around her back to keep her confined in a room until she “calmed down” from an argument.
Fifield also asserted that Platner would sometimes talk about how he would “rape” an intruder if one ever broke in, just to show dominance, but in “a sexual way, not in a gay way.”
Between that, the unearthed Reddit posts where Platner victim-shamed sexual assault survivors and downplayed concerns of female service members who stepped forward, confirmed reports of Platner “explicitly” sexting with up to a dozen women after getting married in late 2023, the existence of a Kik account (an app that is known as a “predators paradise“), and Platner sending his wife out as a human shield to defend him in the aftermath, it has all painted a pretty disturbing picture of a misogynistic sociopath in the minds of his critics.
But in the minds of TDS-afflicted Democrats who are desperate to regain the majority in the Senate, “Believe All Women” has an expiration date, effective now,
Take, for instance, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), the Democrat who reluctantly led the 2017 effort to get then-Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) to resign from the Senate after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.
During the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, she proclaimed that Republicans “don’t value survivors” and “don’t believe women”:
Gillibrand has also championed herself as an advocate for female members of the military who have alleged sexual assault. And yet when it comes to Platner, she has consistently looked the other way:
Then there is Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), who, like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), has become one of Platner’s Truest Believers over the course of his campaign in part because Platner, like Khanna, is virulently anti-Israel.
As Legal Insurrection readers will recall, Khanna teamed up with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to virtue signal about the release of the Epstein files, ostensibly in the interest of respecting Epstein’s victims. Khanna even took to the House floor to read the names of six men in the Epstein files whose names had been redacted, and who he and Massie alleged the DOJ was covering for. But four of the men whose names he mentioned had no connection at all to Epstein.
After news of the sexting scandal broke, here’s what Khanna said about Platner:
And, incredibly, here’s what Khanna said at that June 5 rally for Platner:
“Now, no one should make excuses for his past relationships, some of which were toxic and volatile. And no one on our side should attack the women who came forward. You know why? Because Democrats believe in respecting the equality and dignity of women, and we always will. And we reject unequivocally misogyny. We reject it. But you know who else rejects it? Graham Platner.”
Watch:
You… just can’t make it up. You truly cannot.
Right after that, he confirmed this was about power, not believing women:
Interestingly, before the rally, Khanna was still trying to have it both ways, saying he believed the women and that the Platner should apologize because Democrats have a seat to win:
Khanna said that Platner has shown redemption. When asked whether Platner should go further and apologize to the women, Khanna agreed.
“I think he should apologize. I believe what he did was wrong, was misogynistic, was toxic or volatile,” he said in a brief interview with NBC News. “I know he’s ashamed of it and I certainly think it would be appropriate to apologize and say how he now understands why it’s important to stand up to a misogynistic culture.”
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Last but not least, here’s a then vs. now look at Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI):
The “Believe All Women/MeToo” movement was toxic in and of itself at its height, convicting men in the court of public opinion without critical examination of any supposed facts/evidence, without the benefit of a trial, etc. Yet Democrats weaponized it with wild abandon for political gain under the pretense that they were protecting and respecting victims’ voices.
Yet when Joe Biden was accused of sexual harassment and rape, these same Democrats – including Kamala Harris – glossed over it and essentially said it didn’t matter while yada yadaing about how their voices still “needed to be heard.” And the same thing is happening here with Graham Platner amid allegations that are far more credible than what was alleged about Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
In essence, Democrats have killed their own movement, abandoning it for political gain much in the same way they embraced it when they thought it would help them:
All it took was a female abusing, Nazi tattooed, veteran hating, nepo baby fake oyster fishing, Porto potty masturbating, rape shaming dude from Maine to finally kill the MeToo movement. And surprise, surprise it was the Left that killed it in pursuit of power.Who’d a’ guessed?
‘Nuff said.
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