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American politicians have a moral consistency problem.
In the span of a month, Sen. Bernie Sanders has excused a Nazi tattoo on a Democratic candidate and Vice-President JD Vance seemed unbothered by jokes about Hitler in a Young Republican group chat.
But the American public is watching. And I predict the party that proves they have consistent moral standards will win over sensible voters who haven’t lost their humanity.
After years of perpetuating ruthless cancel culture and ruining lives over minor transgressions, many on the left seem just fine with shrugging off Nazism — so long as it means winning an election.
Graham Platner, who is running in Maine’s Democratic primary for the 2026 US Senate election, was recently exposed for covering up a tattoo that resembles a Nazi “Totenkopf.” This should be beyond the pale for the party of political correctness — right?
And yet Sanders, who has rightly condemned antisemitism, has gone out of his way to declare there are “more important issues” than the coding of Platner’s ink.
“He said things that are stupid, things that were hurtful,” Sanders said of the candidate in a late October interview. “He went through a dark period in his life. I suspect that Graham Platner is not the only American to have gone through a dark period.”
But Platner is not some random civilian being piled on by an internet mob. He is running to represent millions of citizens.
This is not a bad tweet from his teen years. It’s a Nazi symbol that he decided to permanently ink onto his body as an adult.
You’d best believe that if it were a Republican exposed with such a tattoo, the left would be declaring him irredeemable — and claiming he was representative of the party as a whole.
But the right, for their part, is also currently in the business of excusing the inexcusable.
When texts between leaders of the Young Republicans organization revealed members calling black people monkeys, praising Hitler and discussing raping their enemies — all supposed jokes — Vance went out of his way to say it was no big deal.
“Don’t focus on what kids say in group chats,” the VP said on the Charlie Kirk Show as the scandal broke. He also took to X to say he “refuses to join the pearl clutching” over things “said in a college group chat.”
There’s a difference between the cancel culture of saying their lives should be ruined forever and simply making it clear to the American public that this behavior — coming not from random kids but from young people looking to ascend to leadership in your party — does not represent you.
Not to mention: The “kids” he’s referring to are 24- to 35-years-old. At what age does one become responsible for their behavior?
Vance had no problem disavowing white supremacist podcaster Nick Fuentes, calling him a “loser” and saying he has no place in the MAGA movement after Fuentes made racial comments against Second Lady Usha Vance. That was the right move — but it shouldn’t require personal insults to get there.
Right now, both political parties are failing to show voters who they are and what they stand for.
Put another way: When it’s politically convenient, they excuse the inexcusable.
But after a rough election night this week and amidst a conservative civil war over the rise of far-right characters like Nick Fuentes, it’s more important than ever for the right to declare who they are — and who they are not.
If the left is stooping to shrugging off literal Nazi tattoos, that’s an opportunity for Republicans to rise to the occasion and say, loud and clear, that they do not stand with the far fringes of their own side.
It’s important for the Republican umbrella to encompass many points of view, but it shouldn’t be hard to say that overt bigotry is beyond the pale.
If Republicans fail to reclaim moral clarity, they risk surrendering the party to the extremes and allowing fringe voices to define “the right.”
Most of all, they risk alienating the average, moderate voter who just wants some sanity.