"... Maybe I am a bad feminist for wanting Platner to succeed today, but I don’t think so. I think I am a realistic feminist, one who would like to see transgender people not used as punching bags, women dying in hospital parking lots because they are losing a baby and some idiot hears a heartbeat, poor people getting their SNAP benefits back, medical research restarted, not having new evidence every day that Trump and his cronies are looting the government, or knowing that hard-working immigrants leave for work every day wondering if they will see their children that night.
"These are my current feminist goals. All of them mean winning the Senate back: Susan Collins is vulnerable as hell, and the polling suggests that Graham Platner can beat her. If that means supporting a man with a difficult past, one that allegedly includes saying gross things about women and engaging in a peculiarly 21st century form of online marital infidelity?
I can handle it." -- Claire Potter, in her "Political Junkie" Substack, on "Who's Afraid of Graham Platner?" Platner won the Maine Democratic primary for Senate yesterday with 72 percent of the Democratic vote. He's the choice of Maine Democrats, so we're with Platner (and Potter and Ro Khanna, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, AOC, etc.). As Platner said on winning last night,
“I’m still far from perfect, but every day I wake up and try to be a little better, a little kinder, than I was the day before... If you give me a chance, I will be a senator for the people who cannot afford to buy a senator... The national pundits, the political establishment, they keep looking for that one story, that one headline, that one moment in my life that they can define this campaign by... But in trying so hard to understand me, they failed to understand that this is not about me at all. This is a movement about us.”
We can handle it.
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