Maine Gov. Janet Mills has suspended her Senate campaign after failing to raise enough money to compete with socialist Graham Platner, who will now almost certainly face the perpetual centrist Republican Susan Collins in the general.

Chuck Schumer and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairwoman Kirsten Gillibrand immediately backed Platner, proving that there's virtually nothing a leftist can say or do that is disqualifying.

So, for 20 years, you've had a Totenkopf tattoo, which depicts a skull and crossbones, most famously used by Hitler's Schutzstaffel, the paramilitary organization that led, planned and executed the Holocaust?

No problem!

You'd think that picking this symbol out of all symbols that exist in the entire world would be problematic. Not for Schumer, self-styled defender of Jewish interests and author of the book, "Antisemitism in America: A Warning."

In keeping with the message of his tattoo, Platner has also praised the Islamic supremacists of Hamas. Let's face it, that's not exactly extraordinary among progressives these days.

How about boosting social media posts by neo-Nazi Holocaust deniers like Stew Peters? Does Schumer care that Platner is a self-described "long-time fan" and obsequious podcast guest of Jew-hating conspiracy theorist Nate Cornacchia? Apparently not.

Does it matter to Schumer that the candidate also referred to himself as "communist"?

The stigma of that word is fading quickly on the contemporary Left. Some Democrats laugh at the notion that Platner could be both communist and Nazi, even though the two ideologies are quite similar in many respects.

And this communist has also endorsed "revolutionary violence." Coming off the third attempted assassination of President Donald Trump by a would-be killer who embraced rhetoric virtually indistinguishable from Platner's, you might assume that a major political party would be concerned about violent rhetoric.

Not Schumer, who, to be fair, once threatened Supreme Court justices if they ruled against his partisan wishes.

What if a Democratic candidate for the Senate referred to rural white Americans as "racist and stupid"?

Not that long ago, that might have posed a small crisis for the national party. Especially in a state like Maine, which, as it turns out, is one, if not the, whitest state in the country and home to lots of rural Americans.

Platner, who plays a working-class oyster farmer, is the nepo baby of a former assistant district attorney and major Democratic donor and attended a $75,000-per-year Connecticut boarding school. Which is to say, if Democrats fall for his schtick, they may or may not be racist, but they're definitely stupid.

Listen, everyone makes mistakes, though perhaps something less drastic than permanently inking Nazi imagery on their chest. Platner keeps apologizing for every new comment that pops up, and there will almost certainly be more.

What if the man has shown terrible temperament and judgment, little intelligence and exhibited no perceptible skill that makes them right to serve in the most important deliberative body in the country? No problem.

A few years back, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissed the influence of socialists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as largely irrelevant, noting that their influence extended to "like, five people."

Well, since that time, Democrats have abetted the rise of the unhinged Left at every turn, from communists to cultural wackos, and those preaching revolutionary violence.

The Democratic Party has become such a big tent these days that unapologetic terror-shilling communist Hasan Piker, who tells his millions of followers to "soak the streets in capitalist blood," has been invited into the movement by popular personalities on the mainstream Left such as Ezra Klein and Jon Favreau.

Unsurprising coming from fans of Zohran Mamdani, a devotee of "globalizing the intifada" or, rather, the global violent targeting of Jews. These positions, it seems, only lift your stock on the contemporary Left. Ocasio-Cortez is quickly becoming a centrist in her party.

At this point, what could a progressive say to be shunned by Democrats? What sin could precipitate the party abandoning a candidate? It's difficult to think of anything.

And please, don't bring up former California gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell, who is now dealing with multiple accusations of sexual assault and rape. Democrats lose nothing by abandoning a primary candidate in a deep-blue state.

Come to think of it, the only offense that could conceivably turn the progressive Left against you is openly supporting Israel, as John Fetterman has found out.

Otherwise, you're good.

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at the Washington Examiner. Harsanyi is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of five books — the most recent, "How To Kill a Republic," available now. His work has appeared in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reason, New York Post and numerous other publications. Follow him on X @davidharsanyi.

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