Graham Platner

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2,222 appearances 59 recordings 20 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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Up First from NPR · Can Graham Platner survive another controversy? | NPR’s Newsmakers · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

I grew up in the infantry, and that was my lived experience.

I left that world with many of the kind of cultural, I would say, elements that come out of it.

I mean, the infantry is a place of hyper-masculinity.

It's a place of intense violence.

Things that are seen as virtues there are generally not seen as virtues in the normal world.

And then I had to struggle with how do I come out of that and integrate back into society?

And I talked about that journey.

I talked about it very, very honestly.

And I think a lot of people recognize that the ability to transform, the ability to change is kind of just a normal human trait.

I mean, I don't think there are a lot of Americans that want the world to think that everything they ever said when they were 25 is who they are forever.

And I don't think anybody believes that's how people work.

So that's why.

I mean, I think as I went around the state of Maine and I talked about it publicly, I talked about it with everybody who would listen and I would answer every question that came up with it.

And ironically, you know, we don't really talk about it much here in Maine anymore.

The only time it ever comes up is when journalists come in from the outside or when I leave Maine.

Then people want to talk about it.

Right.

So I guess he wants to choose Susan Collins.

Interesting choice for a Democrat.

One, Jay Goshenklash lives in Massachusetts, so I'm not actually all that worried about what he thinks.

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