THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (W. James Antle III) - Platner’s Fatal Dependence on Party Elites
The left-populist Democrat says ‘the political establishment’ won’t let him win. The post Platner’s Fatal Dependence on Party Elites appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Platner’s Fatal Dependence on Party Elites The left-populist Democrat says ‘the political establishment’ won’t let him win. (Photo by Laura Brett/Getty Images) Much has been written about the socialist shooting star that was Maine Democrat Graham Platner’s Senate candidacy, which raises questions for anti-establishment political figures of all stripes. Perhaps the biggest question is how Platner could so thoroughly rout his party’s governing class—he received nearly 72 percent of the vote against the state’s sitting governor, who was backed by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer yet stopped…Open