This week, The Lever hosted embattled Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner for a live event in which he took our readers’ tough questions on everything from tattoos to Reddit posts to his past military service. 

But the most-asked question was about the future: How do we know that a Sen. Platner would not pull a John Fetterman, betray his populist campaign promises, and become just another left-punching troll using his platform to ratchet the Democratic Party farther to the right?