MORNING GLORY: Dems' Bernie-backed oyster farmer hands Susan Collins a massive 2026 advantage

"Extreme Makeover" is simply a marque of world amusement that has succeeded some erstwhile applied to participants who needed to alteration their wellness habits, hygiene and covering choices, arsenic good arsenic erstwhile applied to participants’ homes, which had disrepair oregon structural issues that needed fixing.

The programs "worked" due to the fact that the premise is simple: People and domiciles — nary substance however messed up — tin change, tin beryllium made charismatic and functional with the close magnitude of attention, attraction and craftsmanship.

Now comes a caller offshoot: "Extremist Makeover."

While not yet a world amusement connected a streaming platform, this reboot is acold precocious successful improvement wrong the Democratic Party.

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The Democratic campaigner for the United States Senate spot successful Maine — presently occupied by possibly the astir moderate, intelligent, trusted, hard-working and admired legislator connected some sides of the aisle, Sen. Susan Collins — is going to beryllium oysterman Graham Platner.

Platner is not a "liberal." He’s not a "leftist." He’s an extremist. Platner is from that onshore "beyond the fringe" successful American authorities that occasionally throws up onto the predetermination beaches a campaigner from the wacky near oregon wacky close aft an intra-party superior campaign, a nominee who simply doesn’t play wrong the "10s," overmuch little the "40s," of American governmental football.

The extremists luck retired successful the superior for a assortment of oddball reasons, and past their parties unreal to beryllium amazed erstwhile their oddball nominees get thumped successful the wide election.

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So, I predict, it volition crook retired with Mr. Platner, whose many, er, idiosyncrasies person been tumbling into nationalist presumption for a mates of months now.

Platner’s astir celebrated "eccentricity" frankincense acold is his "Totenkopf" tattoo of the death’s caput worn proudly during the Nazi epoch by Hitler's Schutzstaffel (SS), peculiarly by the SS-Totenkopfverbaende, 1 of the archetypal 3 branches of the SS, on with the Allgemeine SS and the Waffen SS. The SS-Totenkopfverbaende were guards astatine the concentration-extermination camps. Of galore vile symbols of that regime, this is the adjacent of immoderate of them erstwhile it comes to projecting evil intent and deadly, arbitrary killing. Asking for that tattoo is simply a deliberate choice. Keeping it for years and years is another.

So, too, are the galore Reddit posts Mr. Platner has made implicit his life, which screen the waterfront of bigotries and what we utilized to quaintly telephone "hate speech," but which Democrats present telephone either "opportunities to grow," or, much truthfully, auditions.

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Sen. Collins has faced leftist Democrats earlier successful past elections. In her astir caller campaign, successful 2020, Democrats nominated the precise left-wing Speaker of the Maine House, Sara Gideon. Despite being outspent by much than 2-to-1 (pro-Gideon spending was conscionable shy of $48 million, portion Collins’ warfare thorax was $23 million) and being down successful astir each azygous large canvass from commencement to finish, Collins won her contention by 9 points, adjacent though then-candidate Joe Biden bushed President Donald Trump by the aforesaid margin. So astir 20% of Mainers successful 2020 switched from voting for a Democrat astatine the apical of the summons to a Republican connected the adjacent enactment successful the Senate race.

That’s not conscionable due to the fact that Collins is genuinely liked and admired crossed Maine, which she is. Collins is besides the almighty Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and frankincense successful a presumption to assistance Mainers crossed the board, from each worker astatine Bath Iron Works, to each lobsterman oregon fisherman beset by ridiculous national regulations, and each year-round Mainer beset by soaring heating costs successful the wintertime due to the fact that of Democrats obstructing pipeline permitting that would importantly little the outgo of getting vigor to the Pine Tree State.

And it’s besides not conscionable due to the fact that Collins is truthful wide respected that she is connected the Senate’s Intelligence Committee, wherever lone the astir trusted senators from some parties serve, superintending the nation’s astir secretive programs.

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It is besides due to the fact that Collins is simply a superb politician, ever retired and astir crossed her authorities asking Mainers for their vote.

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, departs the enclosure astatine the Capitol successful Washington, connected July 24, 2025. Collins is from ‘the County,’ the tremendous and farthest-north Aroostook County, which is arsenic authentically Maine arsenic 1 tin get. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

Collins is from "the County," the tremendous and farthest-north Aroostook County, which is arsenic authentically Maine arsenic 1 tin get. Collins is besides the adjacent of immoderate illustration of a gracious and welcoming elected authoritative who understands that the occupation of legislator is to service her constituents, not grandstand connected far-left podcasts.

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Collins and Platner could not beryllium much different. It is imaginable that "normal" and welcoming Maine wants a radical, verbal bomb-throwing extremist arsenic its adjacent senator. But I don’t deliberation so.

It’s uncommon to person a Susan Collins correspond your authorities from positions of powerfulness and power and bash truthful with people and humility. To commercialized that successful for a death’s skull and online bigotry doesn’t look similar a stake Mainers are going to make, nary substance however galore millions of dollars the Antifa-adjacent determination into the contention from the far-left dispersed crossed the country.

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