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Like the high school version of himself vowing that administrators couldn’t suspend everyone, Graham Platner — veteran, oyster farmer, a nonpolitician with the Reddit posts and questionable tattoo decisions to prove it — is telling today’s Democrats that the way out of the current era isn’t to simply keep fighting Trump; it’s for a mass movement of regular people to organize and challenge the entire system. If he flips a Senate seat, it just might mean that the post-Trump Democratic Party has finally begun.
I’m a Maine Reporter Who Went to High School With Graham Platner. Here’s What Explains His Success.
In 2002, my classmate Graham Platner ran for student-body president of John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor, Maine. I remember watching him in our auditorium debate his fellow candidates. He was the radical, wearing a revolutionary proletarian costume: overalls and a red armband. (When I asked…
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