The Reality Taboo

Graham Platner and the Politics of Consent

July 11, 2026·1h 11m
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Graham Platner ran for Senate in Maine as the candidate progressive politics claims to want: a combat veteran and working-class outsider running against the establishment. Then it collapsed, and Platner ended up folding to the very establishment he built his campaign fighting against. Jeff and Ness dig into the allegation that ended his campaign: Jenny Racicot's account of a 2021 encounter, laid out to Politico and CNN.

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