Graham Platner Is the Real Deal

“I did four infantry tours in the Marine infantry and the army. I am not afraid to name the enemy. And the enemy is an oligarchy. These are billionaires for it, and the politicians who sell us.”

Graham Platner delivers these lines to video Announcing its beyond the campaign against Republican Senator Men Susan Collins. In the viral clip, the Platner is carelessly leaning against a small boat. He wears a stained sweatshirt, but without Fetterman’s affects, it is a working oyster in ordinary clothing. He has a gravy voice, chirp -board and securely accidental charisma. But outside the aesthetics of the working class, this is, in particular, this line- “I am not afraid to name the enemy,” I think it explains his magnetic draw. Americans understand that the system is falsified and we crave candidates with the intestines and honesty to cause the villains that cause our pain.

In its launch, the video, which has already scored 4 million views on the X-a also in every other statement he made over the last week, has no traces of the Anodyne Consultant consultant, which became so synonymous with democratic politicians. Platner does not talk about the “economy” – it growls that “the fabric of what keeps us together, torn by billionaires and corrupt politicians.” He does not try to rise above the fight – he says that the observation of how his state “becomes essentially impossible for the workers” makes it “deeply angry.”

In their campaign for the Senate Platn embodies the populist energy, which so many Americans – Democrats, independent and Republicans – sought in their leaders, and that the Democratic Party could not accept, despite the need to do so.

Democrats ignored the bells in November when Kamala Harris rejected populist strategy and moved to Play the land through the work class. If the democratic leaders cling to the center, the party is The adult voters Across the country, especially among men and youth. A Democratic Party Has a -32 approval rating. Meanwhile, Populist Bernie Sanders remains the most popular politician in the US. If you look at the Democrats who voted in 2020, but went to the 2024 elections, it is clear what they were looking for. As a poll of Lake Selinda recently foundThese voters “want leaders who will fight for everyone … They are very populist.”

Platner does not need consultants and questionnaires to tell him what the labor -class highs want because, as he said on August 22, “They are my neighbors“In another recent Interview, He said ABC News, “I drink coffee every morning with the guys I work nearby, who my friends who all voted for Donald Trump. And they voted for Donald Trump because they wanted something new, they wanted to change.” He believes that the path to winning these voters is not careful triangulation; This proves to them that the Democratic Party is “a party of struggle for great structural changes to benefit the working class.”

This approach would be a different problem for Collins than the democratic campaigns it has overcome in the past. In 2020, the insertion of the DC Coroneshift House of Representatives Sarah Gideon as a Democratic Maine for the US Senate. Gideon – a transplant that came from Southern Men, the wealthy part of the state – did not associate itself with any unforgettable political commitments and plans. She lack As moderate, who could do things (incomprehensible what is done), working through the passage. She raised his jaw at $ 69 million. And she lost almost nine points.

Democrats need to try something new. But the constant current institution is recruit Candidate, Governor Janet Mills, who will bring many of the same obligations as the Gideon. This jolt has some logic-mills two-term governor, and this comes with preferences. But mills are Second Holy Popular Governor in the country and Most of the major I don’t want her to run for the Senate. She also at the end of the 70s -in fact, she would be the oldest senator -in history, at the moment when the Democratic Party had a problem with Genetocracy. It is also not very good that Mills was warm to her interest in the Senate.

Frequent complaint The Gideon company was that it was focused almost exclusively on advertising and failed to prioritize the retail. Showing things in such a small state as Meng, and the Democrats need a candidate who is passionate about traveling through the state, agitation in each district and the city and introducing into work to defeat, not the one who should be convinced.

It is possible that more importantly, the progressive populist values ​​of the plateor allow him to draw contrasts with Collins, that the Democrat of the institution, like mills, is likely. Israel’s genocide in Gaza offers a great example. Plato’s position understood: he said Jewish insider“What is happening in Gaza is a genocide. I refuse to take money in AIPAC or any group that supports genocide in the newspaper.”

This is approaching supermost position – one Gallup survey Last month, Americans do not approve of Israel’s actions in Gaza nearly two. And these figures are most likely to be distorted even more in the context of the Maine-first personnel plate; As he said in a recent interview, “none of these things benefit the work class Americans. Nothing in Sullin, Maine, will improve because of our financing genocide.”

As a veteran of the fighting, the platform can also effectively fit this into your greater message about “no more endless wars”. All this is extremely profitable fights to choose from Collins, a long -standing AIPAC champion – overcoming that mills probably can’t or will not be engaged.

Finally, the plateor position as an outsider gives him another advantage: in addition to running against Trump and GOP, it can also faces everything that people do not like the democratic party. One of Trump’s greatest strong forces as a candidate in 2016 was that, having ruthlessly breaking the unpopular failures of the Bush administration, he was able to run from the long -standing luggage of the Republican Party (only the whole new luggage he brought).

The National Democratic Party brand is in the toilet today. Long -standing politicians, such as Mills, will have problems with the department of this brand, because it requires a loud and often calling for the failure of the democratic institution – what is almost impossible to pull the members of this institution. Platner, fortunately, does not feel such a folding – its fourth in history pillar The X was a compliance complaint: “Nothing annoyed me more than getting the fundraising text from the Democrats talking about how they are fighting for fascism. Because it’s such a nonsense. We are not idiots. Everyone knows that most of them don’t make Jack Sharm to fight.” With such statements, the platform can demonstrate its independence from the unpopular national party and turn to independent voters so that the mills simply cannot.

Senate control may be whether Democrats can withdraw from Maine who can withdraw Colinz. This is not an easy task, and it was not – and maybe it couldn’t be – it concerns the policy of a soft center center, which refuses to name enemies, fearing to alienate elite donors. Platner is the opposite of this unsuccessful approach. His profile, biography and already clear talent, as a communicator, places it to direct the disappointment of populist, which shows Americans throughout the political spectrum. This guy is a real deal, and instead of continuing to insist on the worse candidate to enter the race, the Democrats must thank their happy stars that such a figure as a platform, intensified and united to build a working class needed to win over Coline.