Well, that didn’t last long.

Establishment Democrats and their assorted hacks have spent the entire past year incessantly insisting that wokeness, elitism, and language policing were out, and that white guys, working-class politics, and speaking your mind were in. The year wasn’t even up by the time they reversed themselves on all of it so they could stop the rise of a working-class, left-populist candidate and try to clear the way for a septuagenarian establishment insider to have her turn in Congress.

I’m talking about the Democratic Senate primary campaign of Graham Platner, the veteran and oyster farmer running in Maine to unseat its nearly thirty-year-long Republican incumbent Susan Collins. Until last week, Platner was looking more and more like a shoo-in. Then Maine’s Democratic governor, Janet Mills, threw her hat into the ring, and Platner was hit with a wave of what looked like opposition research that somehow made its way into the press.