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Christopher Mathias

This Maine oysterman thinks Democrats are doing ‘jack’ about fascism. So he’s running for US Senate

A man in a long-sleeved jersey T-shirt smiles at the camera, a bay with sailboat behind him.
Graham Platner. Photograph: Courtesy of Graham for Senate

One of Graham Platner’s high school yearbooks shows him babyfaced with a buzzcut, holding a sign proclaiming, in part: “Free Palestine.” The image is accompanied by a superlative his classmates bestowed upon him: “Most Likely to Start a Revolution.”

“We’ll see!” Platner wrote on X Thursday, posting a photo of the yearbook page, in a post that’s been viewed 4.5m times. Now bearded, burly and tattooed, with a sweep of dirty blond hair above a sunburnt face, Platner still believes in a free Palestine. He also thinks it’ll take something revolutionary to save the US, so earlier this week, when the oysterman announced his candidacy to be the next US senator from Maine, he pulled no punches.

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