When Spartacus — I mean Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) — says that Democrat senate candidate Graham Platner has some questions to answer, you know that the situation is serious. Platner, the adulterous sexting, Nazi-tattoo-bearing former Marine and current oyster farmer, is grabbing most of the headlines emanating from our 23rd state. Before his national notoriety, however, Maine was already experiencing a host of unwelcome developments.

Head to Maine, Young Man

Early in my career, I worked for a management consulting firm in Rockville, Connecticut. As the firm’s youngest person, I was often sent on long-distance trips to handle clients. One of my destinations was the state of Maine, which I visited eight times, traveling to many of its cities.

During these trips, I noticed how placid the state seemed compared to other states I had visited in my budding career. Long stretches of land in Maine seemed desolate, dotted with vast fields of potato patches. People took things in stride, seemingly never in a rush. Everyone appeared accommodating, law-abiding, and proud of their state. The state was conservative in voting, lifestyle, and outlook. Republican Margaret Chase Smith, a pioneer of sorts in Congress, served as a representative from 1940 to 1949, and as a U.S. senator from 1949 to 1973.

Recently, when I learned how much Maine has changed over the years, it came as a........

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