Here Maine goes again.
The state’s new far-left contender for the Democratic Party’s US Senate nomination is a faux populist with a wicked reactionary streak.
Until five minutes ago, his immigrant-hating, anti-abortion platform was so extreme it would spook even the staunchest Republican.
He’s a local pol so desperate to make it in the big leagues that he’s cosplaying as a progressive working man unafraid to get his hands dirty.
He is Troy Jackson, fifth-generation Maine logger and wannabe US senator, and he’s got the Bernie Sanders seal of approval to replace accused rapist Graham Platner on the Democrats’ midterm election ballot.
Influential Dems are betting the chance for a Senate majority on a 58-year-old former radical right-winger who’s transformed himself into a socialist darling.
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