it’s best to think of Platner as a privileged elite cosplaying as a working-class political upstart
Dems need a way to keep these pathetic fakers off the ballot
There will be more stuff to come out about my dude Graham over the next 6 months. But Maine has made its choice and we *have to* fire Susan Collins.
But the folks that love this guy are deluding themselves if they think all of the attacks are coming from cOrPoRaTe DeMz and the right. 👢 🥾 👟 🫳
Graham Platner is a dilettante adventurer reaping the benefits of both a privileged upbringing and his (unearned) image as an average working class man.
I wrote about how these converge to grant him impunity
www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn...
www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn...
“Misogyny is really the central point of convergence for all these populist and dilettantist dynamics” around Platner’s rise.
THANK YOU. AMEN.
This is excellent.
I’ve read far too many takes on Graham Planter—this one is hands down the best.
Read:
www.liberalcurrents.com
Solidarity with working class women never seems to enter into it.
This reality the OP points up outrages me to no end.
I'm proudly "of both collars" and the worst creeps were always in white collars in my experience.
The elitist ignorance about what working class is odious.
Graham Platner is a dilettante adventurer reaping the benefits of both a privileged upbringing and his (unearned) image as an average working class man.
I wrote about how these converge to grant him impunity
www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn...
Alan Elrod
Solidarity with working class women never seems to enter into it.
"AOC holds many of the positions as Graham Platner. She worked as a bartender between her graduation from Boston University and her run for House. Yet is there any reason to think she could survive a single Platner scandal?"
Interesting @aselrod.bsky.social:
www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn...
Graham Platner is a dilettante adventurer reaping the benefits of both a privileged upbringing and his (unearned) image as an average working class man.
I wrote about how these converge to grant him impunity
www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn...
www.liberalcurrents.com
Solidarity with working class women never seems to enter into it.
Solidarity with working class women never seems to enter into it.
Greg Sargent
"AOC holds many of the positions as Graham Platner. She worked as a bartender between her graduation from Boston University and her run for House. Yet is there any reason to think she could survive a single Platner scandal?"
Interesting @aselrod.bsky.social:
www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn...
Greg Sargent
Solidarity with working class women never seems to enter into it.
Defending Platner’s documented and alleged behavior as the natural cost of running regular, working class guys suggests that we should just assume any working class man will treat women poorly.
It also suggests we should just consign working class women to lives of mistreatment and abuse.
