Graham Platner and Other Rough-Around-The-Edges Populists Can Win -- If They Take a Page Out of Donald Trump’s Book

Graham Platner and the Online Rush to Judgment

Ron Currie At some point, we have to recognize that we just don’t know about the Maine Senate candidate’s past motivations—or about much of anything else, either. The post Graham Platner and the Online Rush to Judgment appeared first on The Nation.

Graham Platner and Other Rough-Around-The-Edges Populists Can Win -- If They Take a Page Out of Donald Trump’s Book

“Platner headshot“ by MAINEiac4434 is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.Oysterman and Marine veteran Graham Platner launched his campaign for the Democratic nomination in Senate in Maine two short months ago, raising a hefty raising a hefty $3.2 million in the first quarter of his race and scoring endorsements from leading Democratic-aligned populists like Vermont’s Senator Bernie Sanders and California Congressman Ro Khanna.“People know that the syst…