A few thoughts on means and ends
I had begun this piece a couple of weeks ago. I went back to it, and noticed the first line: "This is not a piece about Graham Platner." This is still not a piece about him specifically. Because it's so much more than Platner. But since I began this piece, his flameout has been educational. It came just a week or two after Zohran Mamdani-endorsed DSA candidates won their primaries. And now we have Abdul el-Sayed, running for the Democratic nomination the Michigan Senate race, coming under increasing scrutiny once Mallory McMorrow dropped out and gave her support to Haley Stevens in an effort to stave off an el-Sayed win, which would hand the seat to the GOP. The lunatic Parker Molloy encapsulates the feeling among the left right now. Ends are all that matter. As long as a candidate says the magic words she and her ilk want to hear they will overlook any flaw, any crime, any malfeasance. It used to be that how one plays the game was just as important, or even more so, tha...
