Editor's Notes: On Conspiratorial Reactions to a Maine Politics Article
A brief editorial note discussing the author's imagined reaction from readers who favor outsider political candidates upon seeing an article about three mainstream Maine politicians as potential replacements. The author humorously envisions a conspiratorial response suggesting the article was suspiciously pre-prepared, and frames this as part of the publication's ongoing suspicious existence.
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In posting this morning's article 'Three Potential Replacements for Graham Platner,' I had a momentary vision of how a certain kind of person, enamored of rough-hewn outsider candidates, might react to its header image of three leading Maine politicians
In part, the reaction I envisioned was merely 'No! No!!' in the style of Naomi Wolf.
But another part of the imagined reaction involved conspiratorial thinking—that a reader enamored of outsider candidates might also find it incredible that, Somehow, They Just Had These Guys And This Article All Ready To Go by this morning.
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It's only the most recent chapter in the suspicious existence of this publication.
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