In a breathtakingly ironic moment, Caroline McCaughey, a reporter for The New York Sun, asked a woman at a Graham Platner rally how she feels about the Democratic Senate candidate’s Nazi Totenkopf (death’s-head) tattoo. The woman said she thought it was much ado about nothing.

“I think people are making as much of it as they can because they don’t have a lot of substance around anything else,” the woman said. “And if they did, we’d hear about it, believe me.”

“They are trawling for dirt,” she added.

Then the reporter asked her, “So if he has, like, an Israeli flag tattoo … would that be a deal breaker?”

“For me?” the woman responds. “Honestly? Yeah. Israeli? Yeah. Because I don’t support genocide.”

The woman needs to sit with her statement and reflect on that for a while: A symbol of a real Nazi genocide of the Jewish people is fine; a symbol of a fake genocide of Palestinians is not.

The double standard is astonishing, and Democrats aren’t even pretending. James Carville, a veteran Democratic strategist who advised the Bill Clinton campaign, threw his support behind Platner, while openly admitting in an interview that he would find similar behavior among Republicans inexcusable.

The troubles of Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, who is challenging Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) for the Senate seat, began soon after he announced his candidacy, when he came under fire for his Nazi Totenkopf (death’s-head) tattoo.

As soon as it became a liability, he had the tattoo inked over. His candidacy has been beset by other scandals, the latest of which involved sexting up to a dozen women who were not his wife.