Graham Platner, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, greets supporters after speaking at an event hosted by Sen. Bernie Sanders in Orono, Maine, May 24. Credit: Robert F. Bukaty / AP

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As a lifelong Democrat, I am appalled at the utter stupidity of my party. From pushing to let sexual orientation issues upend school sports to giving the limelight to a completely unqualified and severely damaged individual like Graham Platner, we are inviting electoral disaster.

Rather than mounting a common sense appeal to the average Joe and Jill in order to combat the disaster of the Trump presidency, we seem to revel in fanaticism. Will we ever learn?

David Calder
Canaan

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