It’s a strange bellwether for American politics that one guy — Donald Trump — has become so ubiquitous that supporting or not supporting him is now a benchmark for the political “sides.” More often than not, you can simply listen to someone speak and tell whether or not they’re a fan of the 45th president.

Such is the case with Max Linn, who most recently ran for office in the 2020 Maine Senate race, seeking to replace Senator Susan Collins. Linn finished in last place in that contest. He was often seen sporting Trump gear and was so vocal in his support that he actually showed up on January 6th as a group of thousands of traitors stormed the Capitol demanding a stop to the certification of Joe Biden as the 46th president.

Linn died last Saturday at the age of 62 of an apparent heart attack suffered while in a hot tub.

The retired investment planner was so publicly, vocally opposed to COVID protocols meant to stop the spread of the virus that he was known to have called Maine CDC Director Dr. Nariv Shah a “doctor of death” and called Maine Governor Janet Mills a “psychopath” over their policies.

Like all Trump supporters, Linn valued his own personal liberty higher than anything else and saw public health protocols as infringing on his “freedom” — to do what, we’re not sure.

The 2020 Senate race was hardly Linn’s first foray into politics. And like Trump, his political loyalties seemed to shift with whatever was popular, wherever he was at the time. He ran for the Senate in Florida as a Democrat and later ran for Governor of the Sunshine State on the Reform Party ticket. After moving to Maine, he first tried to run for Senate in 2018, but his candidacy stalled before the primary when the Secretary of State ruled that many of the petition signatures his campaign submitted were fraudulent.

Although Linn was never diagnosed with COVID in a way that ever became public, he once told a reporter that he thought he may have contracted it during a trip to China. Now his public criticism of COVID prevention will be his legacy.

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