Democrats have a Nazi problem.

They’ve spent the last 10 years accusing Donald Trump of being the second coming of Hitler and melting down when Elon Musk or anyone else perceived as close to Trump made a hand gesture they pretended was a Nazi salute.

It was all just a hilarious troll that fooled their more gullible acolytes.

Now that Maine Gov. Janet Mills has pulled out of her Senate campaign, citing money problems, Democrat grandees are lining up to campaign for their anointed candidate, the ersatz Joe Six-Pack Graham Platner, who has an actual Nazi tattoo on his chest — or did for 18 years until he disguised it to campaign.

Democrats also are falling over themselves to appear on the campaign trail with Hasan Piker, the far-left Twitch streamer who has called Jews “inbred” and pigs and said, “It doesn’t matter if f–king rapes happened on October 7.”

They delude themselves into believing this hideous ghoul is the left-wing Joe Rogan they’ve been seeking.

The Democrats’ powerful ideological enforcement arm, the Southern Poverty Law CenterPLC, has just been exposed as having paid neo-Nazi groups millions of dollars to foment hatred and division, according to a federal indictment filed in Alabama last month.

It just goes to prove the adage that every accusation is a confession. They are what they profess to hate.

In the toilet

In a sick form of psychological projection, Democrats accuse Trump and his party of their own sins. But it’s not working.

Their brand is in the toilet, with favorability at historic lows, below the Republican Party and even the dreaded Trump.

They are so terrified of the truth that, after DNC apparatchiks commissioned an autopsy on what went wrong for them in 2024, they then refused to release it, infuriating donors and their grassroots.

They seem to think they lost the last presidential election, the House and the Senate because they simply chose the wrong candidates.

It is true that Kamala Harris was a dud because she was a Biden DEI hire that the party bosses didn’t dare jettison, even though they knew she couldn’t win. In that case, cowardice trumped Trump derangement.

But now they’ve lurched to the other end of the spectrum, vowing that if they can’t beat Trump, they’re going to mimic him, or a cartoon version of him with a left-wing slant on his populist pitch.

Belatedly realizing that their rush to the left on immigration, law and order, race, gender and toxic masculinity since 2012 has backfired on them, Democrats have been grasping for antidotes, inflicting on the electorate a series of wolves in moderates’ disguise, like Joe Biden, the worst president in history, and CIA operative Abigail Spanberger, who show their true colors once in office.

They’ve tried folksy frauds like Tim Walz, who wore the costume of the archetypal huntin’, fishin’ Midwestern redneck when he ran as Harris’ supposedly masculine sidekick.

But he turned out to be a malicious dime-store revolutionary with links to the Chinese Communist Party and the ideology to match. Even when he went on a staged campaign hunting event, he didn’t have a clue how to hold a shotgun.

Graham Platner is the latest iteration of archetypal blue-collar MAGA man — the fake version Democrats imagine will win back the voters they lost to Trump.

With his plaid shirts, ginger beard, freckly white skin, tattoos and macho schtick, he has earned glowing profiles in leftist media such as The New York Times and The New Yorker as a rugged, working-class oyster farmer and Iraq war veteran from central casting.

In reality, he is a typical champagne socialist who grew up as the pampered son of a prominent “Down East Maine” family, whose father was a lawyer and whose grandfather was a world-famous architect who designed $20,000 chairs.

Platner attended an elite $75,000-per-year prep school in Connecticut before moving to another posh private school, where he was reportedly voted “most likely to start a revolution.”

His true colors

Platner is being revealed as an unhinged extremist who rationalizes violence. Just what ghoulish Democratic primary voters lust after.

In Reddit posts, he has described himself as an “antifa supersoldier,” and a “communist,” called all cops “bastards” and defended rape: “If you’re so worried about it [rape], you’d think you might not get blacked out f–ked up around people you aren’t comfortable with.”

He defended violence: If people “expect to fight fascism without a good semi-automatic rifle, they ought to do some reading of history,” he wrote in an old post, and praised Hamas terrorists for a “damn fine” attack that killed Israeli soldiers.

He pretends that it’s impossible for him to be both a Nazi and a communist when they’re two sides of the same rotten coin.

When called out for the skull-and-crossbones tattoo — used by Hitler’s “Death’s Head” Holocaust units — that he sported on his chest for 18 years, Platner claimed he had no idea it was a Nazi symbol and had it re-inked to a more palatable design.

“I was appalled to learn it closely resembled a Nazi symbol,” he said, which ought to disqualify him for stupidity — if he’s telling the truth, which people who know him best say he’s not.

One of his campaign officials, who quit over his rancid social media posts, described him as a “history buff” who knew exactly what the tattoo was.

Democrats have successfully stoked Trump Derangement Syndrome to damage the president and his allies, but it’s been at the expense of their own standing with voters — and, in the end, the soul of their party.

They now have a worse image even than Republicans, which is remarkable since Republicans are the ones in power federally and face a relentless barrage of negative media coverage, are in the middle of an unpopular war, are stymied at every step by Democratic lawfare and have had to contend with the Democratic sabotage in Congress of sequential government shutdowns.

A CNN poll last month found just 28% of Americans view the party favorably, while the Republican Party’s favorability was a few points higher at 32%.

Democratic favorability is at net-negative 22.4%, according to the latest RealClearPolling average. Republicans, while also deep in negative territory, have a four-point favorability advantage. And Trump beats Democrats on favorability by 8 points, though he is obviously well underwater.

The “maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time” strategy advocated by the Democrats’ reckless leader in the House, Hakeem Jeffries, is without doubt inflicting damage on Republicans, but it seems more mud is sticking to Democrats than to their opponents. In the process, they have defiled American political discourse..

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Yet hubristic DNC types are already counting their eggs before they’re hatched, making plans for impeaching Trump and delivering retribution to anyone who has supported him when they take back the House, or in their dreams, the Senate.

The president’s party historically loses ground at the midterms, but considering the demonization of Trump and the high-turnout resistance rallies like No Kings or May Day, you might expect Democrats to be further ahead than the narrow lead they enjoy in the national generic ballot and key battleground state polls.

The RealClearPolling average Generic Congressional Vote has Democrats ahead by 5.7 points, an advantage that is not unassailable.

Democrats are so desperate to end their losing streak that they will justify supping with the devil by saying nothing is as bad as Trump — or the imaginary Trump monster they have concocted to scare half the country.

By that logic, Democrats would vote for a serial killer if it meant sticking it to Trump.

Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader in the Senate and putative party elder, and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairwoman Kirsten Gillibrand are backing Platner.

Let’s hope they fall on their face and that Maine voters punish them by rejecting Platner, no matter how many millions they pour into glossing his image.

The only way of stopping the political violence that has hijacked the left of politics is not to reward its avatars.