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Platner and his campaign advisors fucked themselves, and in the end they fucked us all too. And I'll definitely agree that your anxiety over the abbreviated calendar is completely justified. Susan Collins is a formidable opponent, and losing valuable campaign days is a massive setback.

However, framing this sudden collapse as a successful Republican "rat fucking" operation lets the campaign's massive vetting failures completely off the hook.

The GOP didn't manufacture the Nazi tattoo, the abusive online history, or the explicit texts, the racism, the misogyny, the offensive anti-gay slurs, his use of ableist slurs, and on and on. Those red flags were fully documented.

This wasn't a sudden, surprise ambush... it was a slow-motion car crash. National surrogates and local campaigns chose to look past those glaring warning signs because they fell in love with a platform and a persona. They needed a "hero" and a "savior" and a "revolutionary."

The dam finally burst when severe, multi-source criminal allegations broke this week that made him completely non-viable. Blaming outside forces ignores the very hard lesson our party needs to learn --- when we refuse to honestly vet a candidate, we hand the opposition an easy win.