If you don't have the guts to push back on your own party when you see people doing something wrong, then you're going to end up owning it. And that's where Republicans are at the moment, we're in a weird place in American politics right now and LePage was definitely on the cutting edge of that.

Lance Dutson

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In a certain way, Maine was really ahead of the curve on this new right-wing populism that's emerging that everyone's taking note of with Trump.

There's definitely a simmering rage in Maine and across the country ... and LePage upended that. I think what Trump is doing on a national scale is similar except obviously it has broader implications.