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<p>The theater of American democracy doesn’t build stages; it builds cages. Every few cycles, the oligarchs who own the zoo let a new beast run loose, if only to demonstrate how cleanly the cleanup crew can sweep the floor. The latest spectacle under the neon lights is Graham Platner—the left-populist oyster farmer, the gritty Marine veteran, the supposed savior of the Maine working class who was going to march into Washington and rip the spine out of corporate rule.</p><p></p><p>Instead, we got a controlled demolition.</p><p></p><p>Whether Platner was a cons...