Talarico And Platner … Come On, Man

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The Democrat Party Deep State (DPDS), and the left-wing lunatics who form its base, seem determined to repeat the same mistakes that produced 2024. Rather than putting the country first, they continue to focus on partisan interests — a behavior most Americans have grown increasingly unwilling to reward. So, they cherry-picked two candidates to draw in the young white male vote—what has amounted to an epic fail.

To understand this pattern of dysfunction, we need only look at how the DPDS treats their perceived enemies compared to their own rising stars.

Let’s start with Pete Hegseth.

Trump’s Secretary of War holds multiple degrees, including Ivy League credentials, and saw combat in Iraq. Yet his critics reduce his stellar background to the least significant items on his résumé, such as “podcaster” or “Fox News contributor,” to create a caricature.

Accusations swirl around Hegseth — often focusing on military service life, implying that combat veterans drinking is a scandal — but his critics rely more on narrative than hard evidence. I’d like to see just one video of Hegseth “drunk on duty,” the likes of which we constantly see from figures like Nancy Pelosi, who appears unable to pass a Breathalyzer.

In the era of the smartphone, where video cameras are everywhere, it is telling that the Left relies on hearsay rather than visual proof.

These controversies are either exaggerated or fabricated — much like the pack of lies I call Trump & Epstein Inc., or anything the DPDS flung at Trump during their Year of Peak Lawfare (2024), hoping something would stick.

We were promised videos of Trump being urinated upon by a Russian hooker in a Moscow hotel (2016), and videos of Trump getting sexual favors from minors on Epstein’s private island (from Inauguration Day, 2025 to the present). None have materialized. Not even Polaroids.

In the Age of Video Cameras Everywhere, Trump and Hegseth’s detractors are all talk and AI, and no video.

Contrast Hegseth’s trajectory with Dr. Claudine Gay’s.

Progressives once waxed lyrical over her, celebrating her academic credentials, her historic status as Harvard’s first black female president, and her alignment with left-wing causes. As an unintentionally hilarious virtue signal, her last name says “homosexual.”

Across the country, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DIE) advocates hailed her appointment as a landmark achievement, and the so-called “news media” — which mostly serve as DPDS propaganda bureaus — were ecstatic.

That celebration proved short-lived. Claudine’s presidential tenure became the shortest in Harvard’s history, after plagiarism allegations surfaced and gained widespread attention. It appears that throughout her career, she relied on plagiarism even more than Dementia Joe Biden.

Furthermore, the accusations were well-documented by Harvard elites who believed she was promoted over their heads. In other words, she was doxxed by her own colleagues. Et tu, Brute.

That’s the beautiful thing about facing a left-wing Axis of Evil: they have a tendency to turn against each other. Look at what happened to Leon Trotsky. The list of recent victims of Democrats betraying Democrats is a joy for conservatives to behold, from Mel Reynolds to Eric Swalwell.

The same academic ecosystem that elevated Claudine Gay quickly became a source of intense scrutiny, raising tough questions about whether identity politics overshadowed merit and accountability.

And as we all know, DPDS operatives run like hell from tough questions — right after they falsely accuse the questioner of some type of bigotry. It doesn’t make the questions go away; that’s Page One and Page Two of their training manual.

The party’s fixation on identity over merit extends beyond academia. Some DPDS operatives, acutely aware of their failings among young white males, appear eager to promote a new generation of non-DIE politicians as America’s Future.

But recent efforts to recruit such candidates for the Senate have produced more than one sure loser.

That brings us to James Talarico.

My “gaydar” is going off for this guy. Seems like he could win an award from The Advocate for Closeted LGBTQ of the Year. But he’s presented as a fresh young face, capable of broadening the party’s appeal to Texas males. As we rednecks say, that dog doesn’t hunt.

Talarico was paraded around with an attractive young lady described as his “girlfriend.” Yeah, right. Homosexuals call such women “beards.” I’d be astonished if, in the years to come, she produces a child who resembles him.

Critics correctly argue that he remains aligned with many of the same progressive positions that struggle to gain support outside AOC’s Jihad Squad. Like them, Talarico adopted the 20% end of every 80/20 social issue. For example, he’s loudly and proudly espoused every nutball transgender theory ever expressed.

Sorry, James. That won’t work in any Red State, let alone Texas.

Beto O’Rourke has been claiming for about a decade that Texas is turning blue. But Texas Latinos are very different from Los Angeles Latinos, or Brooklyn Latinas. Blue isn’t going to happen there any time soon — particularly with a Senate nominee like Talarico.

Last but not least, there’s Graham Platner.

The Maine “oyster farmer” magnetically attracts controversy. Now representing the party that calls conservatives “Nazis” every five minutes, Platner literally sported a tattoo on his chest for 18 years “resembling” the official insignia of the Totenkopf SS.

He pretended that he didn’t know what his tattoo meant. Only when he was recruited for the Maine Senate primary, and World War II aficionados clearly defined what it meant every day on social media, did Platner find it inconvenient enough to get it covered with a different tattoo.

I’ve read social media allegations, from obvious pseudonyms, alleging that Platner patronized Iraqi teen prostitutes. We all know about the unreliability of such allegations, but they deserve to be investigated.

Far more credible allegations claim that Platner beat up a few of his many girlfriends. But “Believe the woman, unless she’s accusing a Democrat” is Page Three of their training manual.

Like Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Platner may still be subject to military justice. It would be poetic if Pete Hegseth’s JAGs investigated all this with the same vigor, and the same strategically timed leaks to friends in the press, that were used against Trump. Turnabout is fair play.

Spare no expense. Leave no stone unturned. Platner’s controversies have become impossible to ignore. But Democrats, and their media allies, are predictably trying as hard as they can.

If they’d swapped states, maybe both could win.

A guy like Platner might stand a razor-thin chance in Texas. A guy like Talarico would stand a much better chance in Maine.

But as things stand, both candidacies are dead on arrival. The Donkeys’ stubborn embrace of identity-driven fantasies, and flawed nominees like Talarico and Platner, reveals a party more interested in performative gestures than electoral reality.

Rather than fielding moderate contenders who prioritize competence and American interests, Democrats double down on radicals unlikely to expand their map, producing self-inflicted wounds.

As Sun Tzu said in The Art of War around 500 BC, we must never interfere when our opponents are busy destroying themselves. Also, there’s an old Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.” We certainly do.

These missteps — paired with losses in key map-drawing efforts — point to Democrats actually losing a few seats in both the House and the Senate. The American people, weary of the Democrats’ cycle of scandal, Lawfare, NGO grift, and radical posturing, are poised to deliver another rebuke.

Jim Davis is an IT specialist and paralegal, with degrees in political science and statistical analysis: the underpinning of all science. His work has appeared in Daily Caller, Newsmax and American Thinker. You can find him as RealProfessor219 on Rumble.

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