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It looks like Graham Platner is gone — but the Dems real problem isn't going away
Maine Didn’t Produce a Crisis. The Party Machine Did.The Allegation Is Not the Whole StoryThe source begins with a serious allegation that Graham Platner sexually assaulted a woman five years ago, and it is right about one thing: if that charge is true, he should be finished. That is not a strategic inconvenience. It is harm. But the piece does not stay there. It uses the allegation as a launchpad to indict Democratic leadership, donor politics, and the stale reflexes of party power.That pivot matters. When a story about violence becomes primarily a fight over factional advantage…
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