How Westerns Explain Platner's Resilience

🤠🎥📜🔫 Why Westerns are the reason for Platner and Trump being scandal-proof: it goes back years and years to some of the foundational popular media myths we have in our country. And, in fact, it goes back even further to that, all the way to the Iliad, though I don’t cover that in this video, although the Greek idea of a hero/public figure is much more appropriate than ours! To be very clear, I’m not endorsing everything I go over in this video, I’m mostly trying to provide historical and cultural context for WHY scandals and accusations of unseemly personal behavior are likely to make him MORE appealing to voters at this point in time. Stuff shown/heard: —Shane (1953), by George Stevens —The Searchers (1956), by John Ford —Sicario (2015), by Denis Villeneuve —Unforgiven (1992), by Clint Eastwood —Taken (2008), by Pierre Morel —Commando (1985), by Mark L. Lester —True Detective Season 1 (2014), by Nic Pizzolatto and Cary Joji Fukunaga —The Wild Bunch (1969), by Sam Peckinpah —The Badlanders (1958), by Delmer Daves —“The British Way in Counter-Insurgency, 1945-1967” (2012), by David French —“The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces” (2025), by Seth Harp —“Only Donald Trump Gets To Lie Like This” (2020), by David Roth for Defector —There Was A Crooked Man… (1970), by Joseph L. Mankiewicz —“He Was A Crook” (1994), by Hunter S. Thompson for Rolling Stone —“Pictures Will Talk: The Life and Films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz” (1978), by Kenneth L. Geist —George Carlin Interview —No Way Out (1950), by Joseph L. Mankiewicz —Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), by Joseph L. Mankiewicz —King: A Filmed Record…Montgomery to Memphis (1970), by Sidney Lumet and Joseph L. Mankiewicz —Graham Platner on MSNOW —Soundtrack is Oppenheimer OST by Ludwig Göransson #democrat #leftist #grahamplatner #platner #leftism #progressive #democraticparty #election #elections #maine #elections2026 #movie #movies #film #films #westernmovies #westernmovie #moviehistory #filmhistory