I’m afraid it’s impossible to effectively analogise the stratospheric profile of Maine Democratic United States Senate nominee Graham Platner for an Irish audience. Call it a failure of imagination. Call it, as I’d of course prefer you did, yet more evidence of the unique, distorted position the US finds itself in 2026. While I’ve covered Platner here and there in prior essays for The Currency – and while my own mother called me recently, Claregalway, Co Galway, to Portland, Maine, to ask about “this Graham fellow” a gruff army veteran and small-time oyster farmer who secured Bernie Sanders’ support and…

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