Today, Maine; Tomorrow, the World

Up in the Maine Democratic Senate primary battle, the Graham Platner campaign contends to Axios that the contest is already over, and that Governor Janet Mills's Maginot Line of support among Democrats has fallen. With a blitzkrieg attack, Platner has advanced to a consistent lead in polling; if the Impact Polling survey indicating that Platner has a 66 to 28 percent lead is accurate, then the Vernichtungsschlacht is already complete. His stark populism and attacks on Mills as part of a failed Democratic establishment proved to be a deft Bewegungskrieg and have entrapped her in a Kesselschlacht, with two months to the June 9 primary.

Entirely coincidentally, June 9, 1940, was the day Norway surrendered to Germany and the French government evacuated Paris.