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DemocratSinceBirth

(101,438 posts)
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 10:20 AM Friday

My two cents on Graham Platner and more.

He's not the first politician to create an origin story. Pols have been doing it since George Washington allegedly confessed to cutting down the cherry tree. I also don't believe he's a crypto-NAZI, rapist apologist, racist, or homophobe. I do believe if he was MAGA and did and said the same things we would want his head on a platter. I also reject the notion that everything he did is guy stuff. I grew up in a working-class suburb, not one of my friends' parents wore a tie to work, i.e. they weren't professionals. I won't say all of us, but most of us, didn't do the stuff he's accused of.

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