The Platner Paradox

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Simply put, normal, psychologically healthy people do not join organizations dedicated to hating them and demeaning them and people like them. Therefore the Democrats can only recruit certain types of white men for leadership roles—(1) Sociopathic opportunists willing to lie repeatedly and say anything—and very skilled at doing it without ever making mistakes—these sorts of people don’ t go on trees (2) People with very strange and otherwise disqualifying character flaws and secrets that make them either hate themselves or their own community—or at least tolerate those who do. This type is much more common.

So for Platner, it’s the Nazi tattoo, and the woman beating, and the vulgar behavior in bathrooms and group chats etc., and the cheating on his wife etc. The Democrats are trying to sell the story that “he’s a veteran” “He’s an oyster farmer” “he’s working class” But of course, he’s an ex-Blackwater mercenary, he lives mostly on disability benefits, and his “oyster farming” is more of a hobby with all of the sales going to his mom’s fancy restaurant. He has a fancy prep school background and his grandfather was a distinguished architect. He’s not a working-class hero. He’s a classic downwardly mobile elite. It’s all as predictable as it is tiresome.

We saw a similar phenomenon in a very different manifestation with Talarico in Texas. Democrat organizers who presumably have little interaction with normal White people think those people will like Talarico because he is “Christian” and a seminarian. They have no theory of mind for White conservatives, so they expect we will somehow find this impressive. But Talarico’s heresies are worse for actual Christians because he commits it under the Christian banner. It’s one thing to shout your abortion. It’s another to shout your abortion in the name of Jesus, as Talarico wants women to do. Everything about him is incredibly weird—the self-loathing of his White skin, his past vegan campaign, his love for “trans kids” etc. An actual candidate with mass crossover appeal in TX would be something like a Hispanic male, pro-gun veteran with relatively centrist politics. But instead we have oddballs like Talarico because that’s what liberals falsely think will appeal to the center-right.

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