We read Graham Platner’s whole Reddit archive. The vilification of the Maine candidate for Senate doesn’t square with what he actually wrote in his posts.

It’s been a tough few weeks for Graham Platner, the political novice who became the surprise frontrunner to take on Maine’s long-serving GOP Senate incumbent, Susan Collins. They’ve seen a rolling series of bad headlines bedevil the populist candidate over unearthed years-old Reddit posts, which show him making offensive comments about women and African Americans, using “gay” and “retard” in derogatory ways, disparaging rural voters, and seemingly advocating political violence. And that was before the revelation of a SS Totenkopf tattoo forced him to publicly deny he was a “secret Nazi.”

Platner has publicly addressed and apologized fo

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