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I sure would love to see some of the "many black and brown" military members who he claims are casually rocking SS lighting bolt tattoos lol
The tattoo artist I've been going to for the past few years works out of a very liberal town that is maybe an hour from a military base. And the vast majority of her day to day business is fixing tattoos that dumbasses got without understanding them. To the point that she half jokes that she and her partner should hang out at a bar near the base and pretend to be interested in the meatheads until they spot a swastika or other nazi imagery and then freak out.
Basically, they get their "unit tattoo" or whatever because they are in a state of arrested development and just want to fit in with the psychopaths in their unit (at the very least, it is a good way to not wake up to being raped by them "as a joke"). And then, months or years down the line they realize what they actually have on their arms or chests or backs and freak out. But they don't want to risk running into their buddies and having to explain why they hate the men in the foxhole next to them, so they go one town over to where people are mostly getting hot soup tattoos instead.
And while she will very much mock their stupidity and the hilarity of a "300 pound african american white supremacist", she also makes it a point to encourage them to transform it into something that matters to them rather than just get some flash on top of it.
That does all make sense. It's just insane that someone would get a big chest tattoo, literally in the exact spot that Ed Norton had his giant swastika in American History X, and it would be specifically and famously the symbol of the elite Nazi SS group that ran the death camps, and he'd just be utterly clueless about it for years and years. It's just so hard to believe that never in that guys life was he at a pool party or in the gym or whatever, and never once did someone call out his giant tattoo of what is arguably the 3rd most recognizable Nazi symbol behind the swastika and the bolts. I like the guy's platform, and I could forgive getting some tattoo you don't understand as part of a unit thing, it just boggles my mind who this guy's close friends and family must be that they all thought this was perfectly cool as well until he wanted to get elected to something...
I mean... he also apparently stripped down to his underpants in bars when drunk on the regular too (since that is where the footage came from).
Which... okay, he probably actually IS a good candidate for Maine. Like... very large parts of that state are "the parts of upstate New York that still fly confederate flags" if you catch my drift. But there is still zero reason to settle for the nazi 13 months before the general.