In thinking about the Graham Platner star shell that arced across the political firmament and then burst into a thousand little pieces when he dropped out, Megan McArdle makes acute observations. Check out her brief analysis.
People in NYC used to say that Trump was "a poor person's idea of a rich person"--which was supposed to be a dunk and actually described his political appeal. Dems trying to tap that same populist energy instead selected a rich person's idea of a poor person.
As a prep school kid, Platner was no kind of poor person. In fact he is on 100% disability payments from the government, in spite of looking dang healthy and being energetic enough to campaign. He not only doesn't need to work, doing so would likely jeopardize his monthly dole.
