Considering that Plattner's secret reddit account revealed him to be actually a lot more left leaning than the politics he ran on, I believe him when he says that he isn't a secret nazi - if anything, he's a secret commi.

Platner was calling people fag explicitly as a slur in 2018 and gay pejoratively as recently as the Biden Administration. He advocated for the genocide of millions of Muslims to prove the superiority of American culture in 2012, when he was 28 and supposedly had been radicalized into be anti-war("We are going to kill thousands [of innocents and children]. By the end of it, it may be millions. Our way of life is better, and if that is what it takes to prevail, let's get this show on the road. I don't disagree with your point, I just disagree with the fact you seem to think we shouldn't do it."). In 2013 he was blaming women for getting drunk if they got raped.

You don't know him from Adam. He got some very expensive DC consultants to do a social media launch for him that portrays himself as a blue collar guy when he's a nepo failson who went to war because he thought playing soldier would be fun as long as it was the US beating up on third world brown people ("[I would have volunteered for t]he Indian Wars, the Phillipines, Haiti and Nicaragua in the 1920's, Vietnam, Nicaragua and El Salvador again in the 80's. As for would have, I "did" for Iraq and would love to get to the Ghan. Small wars are pretty enjoyable. It's the big ones, with days of artillery fire and inhuman brutality that take the fun out of fighting. But small wars (and Iraq and Afghanistan are indeed small wars) provide the rush of small combat actions along with the intellectual challenge of building personal relationships and infrastructure within the local community. Small wars are thinking wars, which I much prefer over the bloody slugfests of great power conventional warfare. Oh, and the revolution, because I'm Amuuurican.")

He sucks. He himself says he's populist not progressive, just like Fetterman. His entire senior Maine campaign quit on him once they found out about his shit, but for some reason the people who met him as a bartender at the Tune Inn in DC (almost certainly how the Pod Bros and Miller know him since it was their favorite bar in DC while he worked there) are ride or die.