“Back in World War II, the Allies tried Nazi submarine captains for doing this exact same thing,” Massachusetts Democrat Congressman Seth Moulton lectured on CNN on Wednesday regarding War Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Venezuelan boat attacks. “And guess what the conclusion was? They got executed. Listen to that, Mr. Secretary.”

In other words, days after a third left-wing nutjob, all inspired by overwrought Democrats’ Trump Derangement Syndrome, tried to assassinate President Donald Trump and other Trump administration officials — Hegseth was in the room — a Democrat congressman is calling for the execution of a Trump administration official for Nazi-like war crimes.

All the while, these shameless hypocrites keep screaming at Trump to tone down the rhetoric.

Anyway, speaking of Nazis, Graham Platner is now the sole Democrat Senate candidate in Maine after Governor Janet Mills suspended her campaign this week. He’ll take on GOP incumbent Susan Collins in November. If you’re thinking “Graham Who?” remember he’s the 41-year-old nepo baby oyster farmer with the Nazi SS Totenkopf (death’s head) tattoo that he and the Leftmedia whitewashed before he had it edited after 18 years only because it became a campaign problem.

“I am not a secret Nazi,” he protested in the worst campaign slogan ever. Not a Nazi, or it’s not a secret?

The Democrat Party today is increasingly composed of radical leftists, and the Nazis were radical leftists, too. Platner may not be an actual Nazi, but he once called himself a “communist” and an “antifa supersoldier,” which is pretty darn close to a Nazi, despite the deceptive branding.

As Hot Air’s David Strom notes, “Platner trained trans activists as a member of Maine’s Socialist Rifle Association, and has been pretty open in the past about his support for political violence. He has praised Hamas, getting the stamp of approval from none other than Hasan Piker, the communist fan of political violence that the Democratic Party has fallen in love with.”

National Review’s Philip Klein adds, “On another occasion, he promoted a social media post from the neo-Nazi Holocaust denier Stew Peters, and he also sat for a lengthy interview with antisemitic conspiracy theorist Nate Cornacchia, claiming he was a longtime fan. He has also described the U.S.-Israel relationship as ‘shameful’ and praised a violent Hamas attack on Israel in 2014.”

Democrats have a habit of embracing and elevating rather than sidelining their most radical members. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Zohran Mamdani, and now Graham Platner are just a few of them. Hasan Piker isn’t a politician (yet), but he is indeed a thought leader among Democrats, including telling them to “soak the streets in capitalist blood.”

These people are not mainstream Americans. They are hate-filled, socialist agitators, and they are increasingly mainstream Democrats.

“I personally think [Graham Platner] is an excellent candidate,” Bernie Sanders said in October. His socialist pal Elizabeth Warren called Platner “my kind of man.”

That kind of support sucked all the oxygen out of the room for the 78-year-old Governor Mills, even though she was handpicked by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and backed by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Mills always trailed substantially in the polls, and she eventually ran out of money.

“While I have the drive and passion, commitment and experience, and above all else — the fight — to continue on,” Mills said in a statement, “I very simply do not have the one thing that political campaigns unfortunately require today: the financial resources.”

Why not?

The truth is that the Democrat Party no longer really belongs to the Boomers. To be sure, many elected Democrats are white-knuckling their power into their 80s, but the voting base of the party is increasingly driven by radicalized young people. And they want actual communists like Mamdani and Platner, who are young and represent the future of the party.

As for the 73-year-old Collins, she has been a thorn in her fellow Republicans’ side since she joined the Senate in 1997. But she has at least one thing going for her. As National Review’s Jim Geraghy notes, “The senator’s father, Donald Collins, was wounded twice during the Battle of the Bulge. An infantry sergeant, he earned two Purple Hearts and the Bronze Star.” In other words, he actually fought Nazis.

Collins is also still generally mainstream, and Maine is simply not going to elect a MAGA candidate. The alternative, of course, is the Nazi tattoo communist.

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