Positioning on Platner has become a way of re-litigating the war debates of the 2000s and the Bush/Obama response to the financial crisis. Those choices were unpopular for everyone but elites, so the discourse happens through scandal. www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Controversy erupted in a Maine Senate race, causing Democrats nationwide to go at each others' throat. Fights over oligarchy are becoming unavoidable.