{"id":431,"date":"2026-06-12T06:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/?p=431"},"modified":"2026-06-12T06:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:08:06","slug":"is-graham-platner-the-democrats-new-alger-hiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"Is Graham Platner the Democrats\u2019 New Alger Hiss?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A<\/span>lger Hiss.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s probably a safe bet that there are not many in today\u2019s world beyond historians and political geeks (ahem!) who know about Alger Hiss.<\/p>\n

Read more Alberta\u2019s Revolt<\/a><\/p>\n

For those in that audience, an explanation.<\/p>\n

In the day (the 1930\u2019s), Alger Hiss was a young rising star in President Franklin Roosevelt\u2019s New Deal. Graduating from Harvard Law School, beginning as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Hiss\u2019s career took off. He had jobs at various points in the Justice Department, the U.S. Senate\u2019s Democrat majority on the \u201cNye Committee\u201d investigating government cost overruns, and, eventually, he was signed up for the U.S. State Department. (RELATED: <\/strong>Whittaker Chambers\u2019 One-Man War Against Communism<\/strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

As time moved on, Hiss was moving up, associating with the likes of the U.S. delegation to the FDR-led Yalta Conference, where FDR was meeting with U.S. World War II allies Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. He was appointed Director of the State Department\u2019s Office of Special Political Affairs and served until 1946, when he left government to be President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.\u00a0(RELATED: <\/strong>Forty Years Ago Reagan Began to Undo the Stain of Yalta<\/strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

So far, so good.<\/p>\n

And then.<\/p>\n

And then a State Department colleague, Whittaker Chambers by name,\u00a0 stepped forward and, in touch with Republican Members of Congress, fingered Hiss as a secret spy for the Soviet Union. At which point all h\u2026e\u2026double L broke loose.<\/p>\n

Zeroing in on Chambers\u2019 accusation was a young California Republican Congressman named Richard Nixon.<\/p>\n

The bottom line?<\/p>\n

Hiss was investigated and then tried and convicted of espionage. He was sentenced to five years in prison, in considerable part as a result of young Congressman Nixon\u2019s relentless efforts to pursue and convict him.<\/p>\n

In the course of all this, Hiss became a household name. And the once Democrat rising star became an untouchable for Democrats of the day, who had once taken him under their wing and promoted him.<\/p>\n

To simply say his sudden household name was enough to terrify Democrats of the day, turning any connection to Hiss into a serious political liability.<\/p>\n

Which brings us to the sudden appearance of Maine\u2019s Graham Platner.<\/p>\n

Not unlike Hiss all those decades ago, congressional candidate and Democrat Platner suddenly finds his name increasingly everywhere in the nation\u2019s political playing field. And it\u2019s not for the good.<\/p>\n

Samples?<\/p>\n

From\u00a0The New York Times<\/i>: \u201cPlatner Wins Maine Senate Primary After a Turbulent Stretch \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

From\u00a0The Associated Press<\/i>: \u201cMaine Senate candidate Platner says tattoo recognized as Nazi symbol has been covered.\u201d<\/p>\n

From\u00a0Politico<\/i>: \u201cGraham Platner is officially Democrats\u2019 nominee to take on Susan Collins,\u201d with the subtitle, \u201cThe scandal-plagued oysterman was the only serious Democratic Senate candidate left on the ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n

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From\u00a0The Hill<\/i>: \u201cWomen romantically linked to Platner describe \u2018toxic,\u2019 \u2018unsettling\u2019 conduct: New York Times<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

From\u00a0The Maine Monitor<\/i>: \u201cI\u2019m a Maine reporter who went to high school with Graham Platner. Here\u2019s what explains his success.\u201d<\/p>\n

From\u00a0ABC News<\/i>: \u201c\u2018What else are we going to do?\u2019 Maine Democrats divided over Platner, some stick with him reluctantly,\u201d with the subtitle, \u201cSome voters say there\u2019s been too much focus on Platner\u2019s personal life.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more out there on the sudden Democrat celebrity Mr. Platner.<\/p>\n

None of it good.<\/p>\n

Which brings us back to the long-ago Alger Hiss.<\/p>\n

Once upon a time, Alger Hiss was a rising star Washington insider. And of a sudden, he was a household name \u2014 and not a good one. To have any association with Hiss was like Superman touching kryptonite. Democrats around the country who had never laid eyes on Hiss, much less had some sort of professional or personal association with him, were tagged by their GOP opponents with being associated with Alger Hiss merely because they shared the same political party.<\/p>\n

The young California GOP Congressman Nixon became such a star based on his investigations of Hiss that in 1950, he was elected to a California seat in the United States Senate. A mere two years later, in 1952, his pursuit of Hiss led the 1952 GOP presidential nominee, General Dwight Eisenhower, to tap Nixon as his running mate for vice president. (And everyone knows the rest of the Nixon story!)<\/p>\n

But the point here is simple. In today\u2019s media-saturated world, out of the blue, Maine Democrat congressional candidate Graham Platner is well on his way to becoming a household name for Democrats \u2014 and not in a good way. Democrats from one end of the country to the other in this congressional election year could be tagged by Republicans as \u201cPlatner Democrats,\u201d held responsible for whatever ill-gotten activities are credited to Maine\u2019s Platner. (RELATED: <\/strong>How Long Will Democrats Keep Defending Platner?<\/strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just as decades ago, any Democrat who was seen as having merely crossed paths with Alger Hiss was negatively tagged and connected to Hiss and his shenanigans, real or alleged.<\/p>\n

Is it fair? Unless there is a real tie to Platner, no. But hey. This is politics. And an election year for members of Congress.<\/p>\n

So it is safe to say Americans may well be hearing more \u2014 lots more \u2014 about Maine\u2019s Graham Platner. It may have started with photos of a shirtless Platner and his Nazi tattoo.<\/p>\n

But where it goes from here \u2014 and Graham\u2019s value to campaigning Republicans as a symbol of his party and, in particular, its far left activists \u2014 remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

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Suffice to say?<\/p>\n

Democrats would be advised to buckle in.<\/p>\n

And remember the tale of Alger Hiss.<\/p>\n

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