Democracy Matters May 10

Graham may not be who you think he is. But what do we do about it?

#Maine #GrahamPlatner #DoNotTrust #GiftLink #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/opinion/graham-platner-democrats-senate-maine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hVA.UEvG.qwG75Fjhx1kW&smid=url-share

Opinion | The Platner Trap

The exact wrong answer to a Republican Party that’s flirting with fascism is a man who chose to put vile Nazi imagery on his own body.

The New York Times
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@DemocracyMattersALot I think I don’t give a rat’s ass what David French (corporatist leaning rightward) thinks. Well, maybe I’d oppose any Dem that French endorsed. My lazy litmus is not right vs left but ‘up vs down’. French is **decades** into a high-profile, comfortable ‘up’. Collins is an ‘up’. FTN.
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@DemocracyMattersALot a footnote:

That you’d post a link to French’s takedown of Platner (regardless of his past) in the face of 10000 betrayals of working-class Mainers by Collins does stain your progressive bonafides , though.