NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Far-left podcaster Emma Vigeland raised eyebrows this month with her reaction to Maine oysterman Graham Platner\u2019s political collapse.<\/p>\n Vigeland, a former Young Turks correspondent who now co-hosts The Majority Report With Sam Seder podcast, said on a separate Vox podcast that she doesn\u2019t care if a progressive or socialist candidate has “Nazi” skeletons in their closet.<\/p>\n “I am wary of over-focusing on an individual’s personal character over their platform. You know, I’ve said this before. I don’t really care if say like Bernie Sanders or AOC go home and they’re a secret Nazi, but they go out and they vote for the right things. Like we’re talking about politicians\u2026” the Democratic Socialists of America member said during the podcast, which published earlier in July. <\/p>\n “You don\u2019t care?” Vox host Astead Herndon cut in as Vigeland trailed off.<\/p>\n PLATNER\u2019S THREE-DAY VETTING JOB COMES BACK TO HAUNT DEMS AS RAPE ALLEGATION ROCKS SENATE BID<\/strong><\/p>\n DSA member and podcaster Emma Vigeland, left; former Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, right.<\/span> (Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images; CJ Gunther\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Vigeland added that that was an “extreme example” but that candidates and politicians are a representation of a party\u2019s platform such as “taxing billionaires (and) bringing material differences to people\u2019s lives.”<\/p>\n “And that\u2019s what I value more than anybody\u2019s individual conduct because \u2026 how many horrible people are in Washington right now who are centrist or center-right.”<\/p>\n DEMOCRATS WANT US TO FOCUS ON GRAHAM PLATNER\u2019S POLICIES. HE FAILS MAINE THERE, TOO<\/strong><\/p>\n Herndon later said some voters do view moral character of a candidate as a qualification for office, while Vigeland replied that people taking a “victory lap” over Platner\u2019s fall also supported former President Bill Clinton and ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo \u2013 both of whom were previously accused of sexual misconduct, which they denied.<\/p>\n Reaction on X was fierce, as one user posted an image of Vigeland in a Schutzstaffel uniform, writing “In the 1940s, Emma Vigeland would have volunteered to the SS.”<\/p>\n SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER<\/strong><\/p>\n Another critic called socialism and communism a “dark road these people are going down,” noting the party platform includes extremist proposals like abolishing the U.S. Senate and branches of federal law enforcement.<\/p>\n SOCIALISM\u2019S RISE INSIDE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NOW THREATENS THE AMERICAN DREAM<\/strong><\/p>\n CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/p>\n “It is sold to the people with false claims and utilizing those base instincts that are powerful but difficult to manage in a civil society.”<\/p>\n Vigeland\u2019s comments come after years of socialist and far-left groups and individuals repeatedly derogatorily branding conservatives and Trump supporters “fascists” \u2013 a political movement invented by then-Italian “Duce” Benito Mussolini; a close ally of German Chancellor Adolf Hitler during World War II.<\/p>\n Fox News Digital reached out to Vigeland via her Majority Report program and to Platner’s campaign for comment.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"Emma](\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1200\/675\/Vigeland-with-Platner.jpg?ve=1&tl=1\")
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