Democratic political operatives and intellectuals should, in theory, thank their lucky stars for the appearance of Graham Platner. For there should have been no easier way on earth to prove that they could still put country over party, that they hadn’t gotten high on their own supply of negative partisanship, than to have the most easily condemnable candidate of the entire election cycle be a Democrat and to then condemn him. So I am genuinely baffled watching people not only fail to denounce