Don't know if this is a purity test or not but not sure I'm a fan of this dude:
https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1mzuxqm/im_the_maine_oysterman_combat_veteran_running_for/namhen4/
"Small wars are pretty enjoyable"
https://old.reddit.com/r/Hasan_Piker/comments/1oe0fht/the_average_american_veteran_is_dumb_argument/
Additionally, like the post says if he had fantasies and knowledge about early 20th century colonial wars him not knowing that SS symbol stretches credulity. Drunk Marines get Devil Dog tattoos or some kind of non-nazi shit unless they are nazis. And anything "Fallujah" gets a side eye from me, sorry. Then there is the blackwater thing. So dude enjoyed slaughtering brown people into his mid-30's but now he's all cool because "oligarchs?" OK. What actual atonement has he worked for or done for the people of Iraq? He was the son of a lawyer and restaurant owner and went to private college prep school but we're to forgive him for just being a meathead. There might be redemption arcs out there, but that's a lot to redeem here imo.
All that said, we're in the total decay stage so I'm not invested all that much either way. Nor do I live in Maine. But he sure doesn't seem like someone the left should look to imo.