Graham Platner, the Modern Democratic Party’s Fresh Aryan Face

It would have been bad enough if Graham Platner had sported a swastika tattoo for 18 years, perhaps due to twisted respect for the tank-combat tactics of Nazi general Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps or maybe irrational exuberance for the propaganda of Nazi cineaste Leni Riefenstahl. Either rationale should sink any Senate bid.

However, the Totenkopf tattoo on the chest of Maine’s Democratic senatorial nominee goes far deeper into the darkness of the Third Reich. The SS’ Death Head insignia is what too many of Adolf Hitler’s victims saw as they emerged from fetid cattle cars and entered Treblinka, Auschwitz, and other concentration camps. The Totenkopf stared down at them from SS officers’ caps, as they ushered some prisoners toward brutal, often-fatal forced labor.

Others saw the Totenkopf as they were rushed into “showers.” These, in fact, were the gas chambers in which they were exterminated. 

The Totenkopf hovered above these freshly murdered Jews, Slavs, Poles, Gypsies, gays, and others on National Socialism’s hit list. Their remains were shoved into ovens, cremated, and expelled via chimneys into the smoke-filled skies above the Nazi cadaver factories.

Of all the symbols on Earth, the one that encapsulated these horrors was U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner’s pick to adorn his chest for nearly two decades. This was the same Totenkopf that terrorized Anne Frank before she succumbed to Hitler’s brand of white nationalism.

Platner claims that he was ignorant of ​this symbol when he chose it in 2007, ​supposedly while carousing in Croatia with fellow Marines.

But Platner’s former lover Lyndsey Fifield​ texted friends in August 2025 that Platner “has a Nazi tattoo on his chest​.” ​She told CNN that Platner called it “my Totenkopf,” and did so with a memorable foreign accent. Fifield also says that, during a fight, Platner twisted her arm, bruised her, and trapped her in a bedroom.

​Democratic primary voters in Maine looked at Platner’s tattoo in old photos and video​s—all from before he ​covered it up​ with another tattoo last October. They looked at Governor Janet Mills’ name, which still was on Tuesday’s ballot as a Senate hopeful. They looked at Platner’s name, thought briefly of his genocidal fashion accessory, and collectively shouted, “Jawohl!”

Jawohl! to Platner.

Jawohl! to the Totenkopf.

Jawohl! to being represented in the Senate by a man whose shortcomings include memories of masturbating in portable toilets, finding their blue-chemical smell sexually arousing, and then bragging about this on Reddit, at age 33.

While 19.5% of Maine Democrats said Nein! to Nazi-Communist Graham Platner and backed Governor Mills, 72% screamed Jawohl! to a man who decorated himself with not just a symbol of National Socialism but an emblem of Hitler’s apotheosis: The Holocaust.

“A Nazi tattoo is disqualifying. Full stop,” declared former US Senator Norm Coleman, R–Minn., and Matt Brooks, CEO of the Republican Jewish Coalition.

They praised Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Platner’s opponent. “Senator Collins has stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the American Jewish community through every trial and test, from confronting rampant campus antisemitism, to supporting the U.S.-Israel alliance, to standing up to the Iranian regime and its terror proxies.”

Conversely, Democrats and their pals welcome the triumph of Platner’s will. 

“Congratulations to Graham Platner on his landslide victory in Maine,” crowed Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who flocks with Democrats. “Together, we will defeat Oligarchy and create an economy that works for all, not just the few.”

“Congrats, Graham Platner!” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., cheered. “Maine Democrats chose a fighter with the grit to take on billionaires and giant corporations and WIN.”

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair Kirsten Gillibrand, both New Yorkers, said via joint communique: “In November, Maine voters will elect Graham Platner, and we will win a Senate majority.”

It’s official: Graham Platner is not just the toast of today’s anti-Semitic Left. He is the fresh Aryan face of the modern Democratic Party.

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