Graham Platner

If you're a regular human being with not a lot of money and having lived a pretty normal life who doesn't want to just get your entire existence ripped to pieces, I can see why people don't want to do this.

And for me, when I got into this thing, I'm an elder millennial.

I've spent most of my life on the internet.

I was well aware when the moment I said yes to this whole experience that somebody was going to come along with a bunch of resources and dig up every single thing I ever did on the internet and try to use it.

I knew that was coming.

And when it came, I was happy to talk about it because, quite frankly, I think it's a pretty standard story of people that aren't trying to get into politics or just regular human beings in general.

You go through phases in life.

You believe things when you're younger.

You say things.

You do things.

And then you learn new things.

And then you change.

And then you become a different version of yourself, which, I mean, in my experience, is pretty much just like what most people go through.

So it was actually very kind of ironic that –

That whole thing blew up as if it was this huge scandal.

And in reality, I think it actually really strengthened the campaign because a lot of people could like directly engage with that feeling of like, yeah, I have not – most of us have –

not always been who we are today.

And we also have to very much understand that if we're gonna build a better future, we need to keep an opening for a lot of people to change.

Because if we're all stuck right now in some ossified political thought and nobody's capable of changing,

And then what's the point of doing any of this?