Yeah. As an ACTUAL history buff (albeit, with enough stupid boy in me to also love military history), saying you are “a history buff” is a borderline dog whistle for “I like WW2 movies”. Saying you are a “military history buff” even moreso. And platner is of the age where that would basically mean “Watched the History Channel” at the peak of “The Hitler Channel”.

Folk will tell themselves whatever lies it takes to never have to admit they were wrong about a candidate they knew nothing about other than “white guy” and “said ‘medicare for all’ once”