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The Graham Platner story is one more example—among countless others—of a leader whose disqualifying character was obvious all along but became fatal to him only when one more revelation made it impossible to pretend anymore. The question, though, is why we keep doing this. At least one reason is the uncomfortable reality that something true and beautiful is now twisted and commodified: our longing for a redemption arc.
I don’t know what happened in a house in Maine in 2021. I do know what happens all the time in movements, parties, ministries, churches,
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