Shortly before this scandal broke, Matt K. Lewis noted in a Los Angeles Times op-ed that Maine voters may just be ahead of the Democratic pack in adjusting to Trump-era politics: Maybe Maine Dems have concluded that moral purity tests are politically suicidal after years of watching heterodox figures like Joe Rogan and Elon Musk drift away from the party. Maybe Platner’s rough-edged outsider persona simply feels more authentic than another interchangeable politician in a pantsuit droning on about “working families.” Perhaps the difference is that, unlike Trump or Texas’ scandal-plagued Republican Atty. Gen. Ken Paxton, Platner has at least...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
