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9. Maybe just maybe we should've looked at the SS tattoo and the blog post blaming women who get drunk...

... getting raped and said,"These seem like major red flags. Let's find a different mainstream progressive candidate who can beat Sue Collins in November while we still have time."

If we did that, we wouldn't be in the situation we are in now.

I am a lifelong Democrat. I started volunteering on campaigns at 13, collecting signatures to get Bill Bradley on the ballot in New York when he ran for president. I have worked on campaigns as both a volunteer and a paid staff member in six states at all levels of the ballot, from city council races to presidential elections. I've slept in strangers' basements. I've gotten on a plane to a different state to start work with 24 hours' notice. I am also Jewish. I am absolutely disgusted by the fact that the party I have been a part of my entire life has embraced a man with an SS tattoo.

The left has long had a problem with antisemitism. Either because people believe that Jews are collectively responsible for the actions of the Israeli government or because they believe all Jews are "white" and "rich," so it doesn't matter if they face discrimination in the first place. Watching these people cry victim after their candidate got exposed as a horrible human being brings me a high level of satisfaction.