Jon Favreau

That's the most important thing.

It's not about Graham Platner.

It's about winning the seat.

I do try to separate...

this is a political situation and this is like a personal situation, right?

Like imagine if we were talking about this person and he wasn't running for office, okay?

Just as an experiment here.

I think this is what has been bothering me about it is like, I do very much believe in the ability to redeem oneself and to change and to become a better person.

And I still think it is very possible that this is the case with him, that all that stuff in the past is true.

And that somewhere along the line, as he says, he was like, my life is really fucked up.

And, you know, people say, like, he's blaming the war.

But like, you know, every time every person who's fucked up is a product of their environment and their own choices.

It's both right.

And so his own choices, his environment led him to this moment where he was really fucked up.

He gets help.

He tries to, you know, work in his community, organize people, tries to turn over a new leaf.

And then someone's like, you should run for office.

He's like me.

What the fuck?

And then he's like, OK, I guess.