Posted on 05/14/2026 10:55:54 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
In 2002, my classmate Graham Platner ran for student-body president of John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor. I remember watching him in our auditorium debate his fellow candidates. He was the radical, wearing a revolutionary proletarian costume: overalls and a red armband...
I don’t recall the issues they discussed, but I do remember Platner proposing collective action to overturn some school policy — saying something along the lines of, “They can’t suspend us all.” The history teacher serving as moderator interjected to remind Platner and everyone else that, yes, in fact, they could...
Students elected the safe candidate, a future chiropractor. But Platner had other outlets... Around that time, he skipped school to protest the coming Iraq war when President George W. Bush visited our local airport — and was forcibly removed by the Secret Service. In the high school yearbook, our class voted him “most likely to start a revolution.”
Nearly a quarter-century later, Platner, now 41, is arguably the most remarkable political story in the country. A former U.S. Marine and oyster farmer who, school elections aside, had never previously run for office...
And Platner soon faced a succession of controversies... Maine voters also learned he had a Nazi-linked tattoo...
Since 2016, Democrats have debated whether or not the fundamental problem is President Donald Trump himself or the circumstances that produced him....
Platner is up to something different... He’s not trying to woo the working class to the Democratic Party; he’s trying to mobilize the working class to take over the Democratic Party...
He’s not trying to convince voters he will stand up to Trump; he’s trying to start a movement to build a world without the despair and resentment that he believes allows Trump’s brand of politics to flourish....
(Excerpt) Read more at themainemonitor.org ...
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He’s a nutjob looking for an issue to run on.
More frightening to me is the amount of political traction he has in Maine
Has the world gone nuts?
“Donald Trump was a distress signal, the rise of Mamdani is just another iteration of this only from the left.”
This is the clincher from the article re: Platner:
"He’s not trying to convince voters he will stand up to Trump; he’s trying to start a movement to build a world without the despair and resentment that he believes allows Trump’s brand of politics to flourish..."
I believe if the Iran War continues or expands, Platner has a chance. If not, and if things like gas prices go down, Susan Collins will have the edge.
We can’t underestimate the working class electorate and how high economic burdens rank for people.
He has a very strong chance of beating Collins.
yes
He is a socialist….a National Socialist!
Obama would like to have a word with him.
It could be worse.
Take a look at Natasha Grokh.
"He is a socialist….a National Socialist!"
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Well you can't call him a NAZI just for trying to turn the democrats into a national socialist workers party
It’s interesting that career gerontocracy squish bags like Collins have engendered the rise of radical nut jobs on the left to take her place. Yet, she blithely soldiers on, determined to stay in office until removed in a body bag, like most good democrats.
It’s gone liberal.
Collin’s will win. Democrats are making the sam mistake we did in 2022, running horendous Senate Canidates.
Searching with Google AI:
Natasha Grokh is a Foreign Service Officer for the U.S. Department of State who originally hails from Bangor, Maine.
Education: She is a 2003 graduate of John Bapst Memorial High School, a college-preparatory school located in downtown Bangor.
Diplomatic Service: As a diplomat, she has represented the United States in various international roles, serving as an Economic Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Shenyang, China, and completing foreign postings in Togo, the Philippines, and Egypt
Current Role: Program Manager / Software Deployments and Analytics Lead at the U.S. Department of State (Dec 2024 – Present).
Previous Roles: She has held multiple positions within the State Department since 2009, including Project Manager/Senior Knowledge Management Lead, Economic Outreach & Engagement Officer, and Consular Officer.
Appointed by Obama.
In a family picture, he looks normal, she looks evil.
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