Platner

People keeping asking me variations of "what do you think about what is going on in Maine" and so I'm just going to write it down. I never liked Platner as a person, and was wary of him from the get-go. He has always reminded me of every New England prep school fuckup I met in college.1 After all these scandals, he reminds me of them even more. I'm glad he's likely done. Of course, that's easy for me to say because I also think it was supremely stupid to nominate a progressive warrior in a swing state where all the Dems needed to do was not lose any Harris 2024 votersin a solidly-blue state. The legend of Susan Collins is surely scary in Maine politics, but the idea she was going to beat random unobjectionable Democratic State Senator X this year struck me as absurd. She was probably toast, in the same way Jon Tester was toast two years ago; the days of any Senator levitating significantly above the partisanship with a personal vote are waning, and even Collins was pretty unlikely to…