Graham Platner

to actually have people mobilize.

And if we have to, you know, resist fascism in the streets with a mass movement, which is really the only way you can.

And we're trying to build the apparatus to do both.

And when we're done, we want it to stay.

I don't want any of this to die because one single Senate seat's not gonna get us universal healthcare.

So we're gonna need to have the power of people still on our side in order to like get the wins we're gonna need down the road.

It's a, I mean, everybody works really hard.

Eastern Maine is fantastic.

economically depressed.

It's commercial fishing.

It is a lot of construction, mostly because we have some pretty substantial summer communities nearby, which brings money in.

And then across the bay from us, we have Acadia National Park.

So there's a lot of folks that work in industries that are related to tourism.

So it's a very...

It's a very working class area, which I frankly, as I think why it is this kind of weird back and forth between like Trumpism and not Trumpism.

Because, I mean, Trump, I have a lot of friends who voted for Donald Trump three times and they hate billionaires.

They think corporate tech folks are like manipulating all of us.

They think that corporate owned agriculture and food systems are exploiting all of us and essentially poisoning us.

They think that hedge funds and private equity are like destroying working people's lives.

I agree with all of this.