Platner did not magically appear. He was recruited as an avatar, someone to represent the aesthetic of white working class men.
That bias is the root of why people believed he was the only populist who could win. And why they let him get much farther than he should have.
My latest piece:
open.substack.com
Platner Didn't Have To Happen
He wasn't inevitable. He wasn't organic. He was the result of a recruitment effort rooted in the very biases that have allowed him to stay in the race this long.
