The Dispatch33%
Normal People - The Dispatch 14%
By Nick Catoggio23%
7/9/2026, 9:32:08 PM
Keywords: Election, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Graham Platner, Maine, Opinion, Republican Party
BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Loss Aversion, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 20.4% saturation with 68 hits. Analysis detected 302 faulty-reasoning hits from 333 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 30.3% and a BS Rank of 14% (18,947 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 86.60% of the article peer group.
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Dignity in politics is rare, and dignity in populism rarer still.
But if ever there were a moment when a cheap demagogue might feel compelled to muster a little, one would think the end of Platnermania in Maine was it.
Nick Catoggio is a staff writer at The Dispatch and is based in Texas.
Prior to joining the company in 2022, he spent 16 years gradually alienating a populist readership at Hot Air.
When Nick isn’t busy writing a daily newsletter on politics, he’s … probably planning the next day’s newsletter.
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