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Thank you for your thoughtful comment.
First, a bit about me. I’m from a country that has been struggling with fascism in the political arena for well over a hundred years. I’ve seen the games they play, the way they signal to their base with one side of the mouth while pleading ignorance with the other. I have a simple rule: people talk, but when they show you who they are, believe them.
What this sums up to is that my priors for “is person with Nazi tattoo a Nazi” are pretty fucking high, and claims of ignorance do absolutely nothing for me, because they fall into the established pattern for cryptofascists evading accountability. That’s where I stood when the story broke, at least.
Right now, I think he’s something much better and much worse at the same time. I think he’s an impressionable idiot with a weak internal compass. He hangs around with his fascist military buddies, he gets a Nazi tattoo. He falls into some Reddit rabbit hole, he posts the crap he’s been posting. Then he falls in with the labor movement and now he’s an anti corporate champion for worker rights.
But who is he going to be tomorrow? Who is he going to be when lobbyists try and become his best friends? When machine politicians get all buddy buddy? Can we trust him to stay the course? Is there even a course to stay?
He’s probably not a Nazi. And the odds of him being better for not just Maine but the US and the world than the current office holder are pretty good (senators ratify international treaties, we all have a stake in this). But a term is six years, and I don’t know what he’s going to be like in six years. That’s true for everyone, but it feels more true for him.
That said, I’m looking forward to be proven wrong.