Just to be clear, this is the Mad Biologist’s Official Take on the Maine Democratic primary senate race, which, unfortunately, has become a contest between Gov. Janet Mills and Graham Platner:

There is some important context for Maine: it’s a very weird state. More precisely, it is the whitest state in the U.S., with 93.1% of the population classified as “White alone, not Hispanic or Latino.” It also has a small Jewish population, with only 1.3% of the population being Jewish.

Needless to say, this is not the typical Democratic primary demographic. This might be important context for Totenkopf Guy.

That also is why it is weird to read articles about someone like Platner being touted as the future of the Democratic Party: leaving aside Platner’s Totenkopf problem (which has only become worse), Maine is completely unrepresentative of the U.S. as a whole. Despite the best efforts of Stephen Miller, it’s also not what the future looks like. Arguably, the borough of Brooklyn–which is twice as large as Maine and is usually mocked as atypical and weird–is as ‘normal’ as the nearly all white Maine.

Anyway, just some context.