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You are pretending the political establishment politicians on both the right and the left uniting against someone isn’t the best candidate regardless.
Stop watching cable news
“The white liberal must honestly ask himself why he supported the movement in the first place. If he supported it for the right reasons, he will continue to support it in spite of the confusions of the present moment. But if he supported the movement for the wrong reasons, he will find every available excuse to withdraw from it now, and he will discover that he was inoculated with so mild a form of commitment that he was immune to the genuine moral article.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
Not sure why you've spammed that MLK Jr. quote across this thread as it really doesn't seem to apply.
Firstly you are assuming (or worse projecting) the identity of your interlocutors. Secondly "support of the movement" doesn't mean blindly following anyone that claims to walk with you despite historical evidence that they do not. Similarly critiquing the very real failures of a candidate with no track record of support is not "finding every available excuse." We should critique all our leaders because we want both for them to improve and to foster others to be better. Following based on lip service alone is some misguided messianic practice, and Platner ain't no messiah.
This disingenuous injection of MLK Jr's words feels no better than the right's jingoistic quote mining as an attempt to produce a diverse authority that agrees with them.
I highly doubt MLK Jr. would be in favor of a white boy with a Nazi tattoo who served multiple tours and signed up as a mercenary because he liked killing so much.
I think he's better than Collins. I don't think he's a good candidate in the field of all possible candidates that could (but aren't) run.
Furthermore being universally opposed doesn't make one right, best, or good.
I don't watch cable news.
This guy absolutely doesn't remember the 2016 republican primary where the GOP establishment was in universal opposition to Trump but couldn't convince enough of the lifetime careerists running against him to exit the clown car.