Too early to tell. Platner definitely hasn't had enough scrutiny to be sure he's the guy. I hope the primary continues and there's an honest accounting of who it is that D Mainers want to face Susan Collins.
I don't think you can look at the 2016 primary and subsequent Trump I admin as one in which pre-2016 GOP political elites were driving events. It was a base revolt bc of the propaganda those party elites put out but didn't particularly believe.
The elites were on board with democracy. It's the base that abandoned it after being convinced their culture was fading away without being replaced with other visions of the good life that they saw themselves in. We needed way, way more propaganda.
The style of food or hat legitimizes the dispossession of the colonized. Putting their cultural patrimony to a "higher and better use" than they could, similar to the justification for land theft. Abstract stuff that doesn't respond well to demands for policy change, but a real thing nonetheless.
Either way, it is probably the single most trivial gripe one could have with Israeli settler colonialism and it's strange to see so much energy devoted to it.
Vanity sizing is out of control, though. Appropriate waist sizing also can vary a bunch based on the rise height. Measurements help, but vibes are all we can cling to in a world of illusion.
We have developed a general societal allergy to giving people kudos for small pro-social acts. It's either virtue signalling or wanting plaudits for doing the bare minimum.
Idk how we get good behaviors with only sticks, but that seems to be where we are.
Immigration is by far the most important political issue of the century for the simple reason that it has the same origins and effects, the same scope of impact, and arouses the same passions with the same moral urgency as the issue of slavery did in 1850s America
