Democrats need to rethink their image of a ‘man of the people’ | Judith Levine

For progressives too, working-class heroes are bearded, buff white guys. Their treatment of women can be overlooked Ana Marie Cox’s New Republic profile of the Maine oyster farmer and former Democratic senatorial candidate Graham Platner begins with an encounter on the shore…

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