Comment on Mainers, don’t get played by Trump’s visit, there’s work to do

As a government whistleblower, I admire people who speak up. I don’t always love what they have to say, but I do love it when people, especially from the state where I was born and raised, engage constructively in political and social issues. Whether it’s understanding the climate crisis, addressing a pandemic, advocating for the Maine economy, or owning up to inequity and racism in our society, those who speak out, honestly and in good faith, are taking responsibility and participating in our social system. Maine has a long proud tradition of doing so, a tendency that was not always welcomed by the powers-that-be — see Colin Woodard’s excellent series in the Sunday Telegram from earlier this year on Maine’s path to statehood for evidence of this. But what does “in good faith” mean?