This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://chrisryan.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_7">chrisryan.substack.com</a> Is <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-girlfriends-relationships.html">Graham Platner</a> the Trump of the left? Could there even be a Trump of the left? Are the pitchforks about to come out? Here’s <a target="_blank" href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014/">the article</a> about the pitchforks that I mention. And this is <a target="_blank" href="https://thehumanityarchive.substack.com/p/the-rich-are-building-bunkers-because?utm_source=post-email-title&#38;publication_id=5961897&#38;post_id=200846134&#38;utm_campaign=email-post-title&#38;isFreemail=true&#38;r=3zlbv&#38;triedRedirect=true&#38;utm_medium=email">another essay</a> well worth reading, about how the super-rich are building bunkers to hide in when shit gets real.George Orwell, writing in 1943:

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