View: Why Platner’s implosion won’t singe the Sanders wing

View: Why Platner’s implosion won’t singe the Sanders wing

David’s viewFor 21 hours, while Bernie Sanders said nothing about the sexual assault allegation destroying Graham Platner’s campaign, speculation grew that the Vermont senator might be trying to talk his ally out of Maine’s Senate race.Sanders helped write the Platner story, after all, so he could close the book. It sounded good, but this story — and Sanders’ entire movement — doesn’t work that way.The founding myth of the Sanders camp, now ente…