{"id":213,"date":"2026-06-05T21:41:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2026-06-05T21:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:41:24","slug":"graham-platner-and-the-rise-of-white-male-identity-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"Graham Platner and the Rise of White-Male Identity Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>As of Wednesday morning this week, even after his sexting scandal broke, I knew two things about Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner: I was glad I didn\u2019t have to vote in Maine, and that if I did, I would probably hold my nose and vote for Platner. Senator Susan Collins is despicable, her vote for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh unforgivable. Defeating her is essential.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=211\">What\u2019s Behind the Corporate Pillaging of \u201c60 Minutes\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Friday morning, and now I know deep down I could never vote for Platner. (I\u2019m still glad I don\u2019t vote in Maine so I won\u2019t be tested on Tuesday.)<\/p>\n<p>Platner, as most of the political world now knows, was accused Thursday afternoon in a <em>New York Times<\/em> story of behaving in \u201cunsettling\u201d ways, as one of the women put it, to at least three girlfriends, between 2013 and 2021. As many people also know, especially Platner stans, the worst allegations in the article\u2014that he was physically abusive, and that he knew his \u201cskull and bones\u201d tattoo was an SS <em>Totenkopf<\/em>, which he has repeatedly denied\u2014came from a conservative GOP operative. Do I like that? No. But I believe her, and I don\u2019t believe Platner.<\/p>\n<p>The Maine oysterman has been through a lot since his 20-year-old <em>Totenkopf<\/em> was revealed in October (he had no idea it was a Nazi symbol, he said. He\u2019d danced with his shirt off at a wedding, in front of his Jewish family!). Then came allegations that he had posted, on Reddit and other social media, various icky thoughts about women, Black people, and gay people. He said both the tattoo and the sometimes outrageous Reddit posts were a product of his PTSD and alcoholism from his military service, which included not only the Marines but a stint at the mercenary group Blackwater. He asked for understanding and compassion. He received it.<\/p>\n<p>But consider this, when you think about whether to trust him: If the <em>New York Post<\/em> is to be believed, as recently as Tuesday he told Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who\u2019ve endorsed him, that there were no more muddy boots to drop, and that the \u201cworst\u201d of the rumors they might be hearing weren\u2019t true. Then he canceled the rest of his Washington meetings and ran home to Sullivan, Maine, to do damage control on the coming <em>New York Times<\/em> story. Even if you don\u2019t believe that story, or don\u2019t want to believe the Republican victim, you\u2019d have to count what he told Sanders and Warren as something akin to a\u2026 lie, wouldn\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<p>Platner did something similar in his interview with MSNOW\u2019s Chris Hayes last night. When Hayes asked him whether there were other \u201ctexts, photos, floating around that will hurt the campaign,\u201d and whether he worried about it, the candidate brushed it off: \u201cI\u2019m not worried about it. There may be things out there, but they\u2019re before I was in politics and a public figure.\u201d He repeatedly depicted the negative stories coming out against him as what happens when you\u2019re \u201cgoing up against an entrenched political machine.\u201d Disapproval was only coming from \u201ccareer politicians.\u201d Platner went on: \u201cMy journey is one of transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And my journey is one of disillusionment, and maybe some regret that I ever believed him. Dude, you got into politics last August. So anything that happened, say, that spring must be forgiven?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I\u2019m a little pissed off. I\u2019ve been Platner-skeptical since the <em>Totenkopf<\/em> reveal, but my Maine friends and acquaintances, as well as people I respect in the broader progressive community, love him. But I think Platner\u2019s rocket to political stardom reflects something ugly that\u2019s developed, not only on the right but on the left too: The only acceptable form of \u201cidentity politics\u201d now is white-male identity politics. On the left, women and people of color have been told since Kamala Harris lost in 2024, even going back to Hillary Clinton\u2019s loss in 2016, that we are the problem; our \u201cidentitarianism\u201d drove away moderates and white men in 2016, and in 2024, even some Black and Latino men.<\/p>\n<p>Over and over we\u2019ve been told: We gotta support candidates, like Platner, who have a lot of guns, and pickup trucks, and tattoos, and a military background, even if it includes Blackwater; a history of racist and sexist remarks and gay slurs on social media, and a history of shady behavior toward women, because it\u2019s the only way to reach white working-class men.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d say that\u2019s pretty insulting to white working-class men.<\/p>\n<p>Let me add a couple of other points on the last two Platner scandals involving women. The sexting\u2014which took place after he was married, and which was revealed by his wife to the campaign\u2014actually bothered me, because it reflected recent behavior, not his post-combat meltdown. And for the record, it wasn\u2019t normal old sexting (who among us?) but use of a semi-anonymous app called Kik, frequently used the way Platner used it. His photo on the app showed him shirtless, and in a towel; his profile was only deleted last week. This disturbs me more than if he had been sending smutty consensual texts to someone he knew. For one thing: When Hayes asked him if all his sext recipients were adults, he quickly answered, \u201cYes,\u201d though he has no way to know. That it happened after his marriage shows a level of sexual compulsion that\u2019s unnerving in a Senate candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Also, when Hayes asked him when he terminated his sexting, he quickly said, \u201cIt stopped when it started.\u201d Is that a koan or something?<\/p>\n<p>In Thursday\u2019s <em>New York Times<\/em> story, conservative Lyndsey Fifield\u2019s stories of violence\u2014he grabbed her so hard he left marks; during a fight, he twisted her arm behind her back, threw her into a bedroom, and held the door closed until, he told her, she got \u201ccalm\u201d\u2014are the most harrowing. But they aren\u2019t the only disturbing information in the piece.<\/p>\n<p>Jenny Racicot, a Democrat who dated him, told the <em>Times: <\/em>\u201cWhen I saw the old comments that he made online\u2026I was like, that makes sense. This person does not respect women.\u201d While she said he was not physically abusive, she related a story where he came to her house drunk when she had asked him not to. Racicot found it \u201creckless\u201d and \u201cunsettling.\u201d She also posted on a Facebook page, \u201cAre we dating the same guy?\u201d after a woman posted a photo with Platner. The woman added that \u201che popped up on a different dating app. I\u2019m concerned he may have a significant other out there.\u201d Racicot posted confirming that he was indeed married and warned against him. That was in November 2024, a year after he married Amy Gertner.<\/p>\n<p>The third woman the <em>Times <\/em>depicted as having bad experiences dating Platner is unnamed, and is quoted saying only that she felt like \u201ccollateral damage to the world that is his.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=209\">The District 12 Candidate Nobody Is Talking About<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still, the most damning information comes from Fifield. She also says he referred to women as \u201chatchet wounds,\u201d referring to our genitalia, she believes, and more than once told her: \u201cIf anybody ever broke in here, I would rape them,\u201d but added \u201cit would not be in \u201ca sexual way, not in a gay way\u2026. I would rape them to show them that I\u2019m dominant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again, you can dismiss Fifield because of her politics, or not. I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>But the lefty men who have defended Platner appall me almost more than he does. Substacker Ken Klippenstein, who once worked at <em>The Nation<\/em>, defended Platner after the sexting story broke as a manly man, unlike the \u201csmoothgroins: real-life barbie dolls with smooth plastic where a sexual organ should be.\u201d He named California Governor Gavin Newsom, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, and former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg (who is gay) as examples. \u201cWhen Washington acts like it\u2019s disqualifying, what they\u2019re really saying is that ordinary people aren\u2019t fit for higher office.\u201d Klippenstein\u2019s piece also contains the lovely sentence that Mills got \u201cher clock cleaned by Platner so badly she\u2019s probably still shitting pieces of her dentures out.\u201d Nice violent imagery! Klippenstein captioned a side-by-side photo of Collins and Maine Governor Janet Mills, who dropped out of the race: \u201cSusan Collins and Janet Mills would never be embroiled in a sexting scandal (too much integrity?)\u201d Sexist, ageist\u2014it reminds me of 2016. (Here\u2019s an excellent piece by <em>Liberal Currents <\/em>writer Alan Elrod about Klippenstein\u2019s post.)<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Jacobin<\/em>, David Sirota wrote: \u201cIf you are part of this political-media elite, you are probably desperately promoting the idea that politicians\u2019 \u2018character\u2019 is defined by their manners, civility, family life, and anything else that has no material impact on voters.\u201d So manly populism matters, allegations of assaulting and demeaning women don\u2019t?<\/p>\n<p>The day before the <em>Times<\/em> story with the women\u2019s specific allegations broke, author Sebastian Junger weighed in with \u201cI just had breakfast with Graham Platner\u201d on his Substack. \u201cI was interested to meet someone who seemed to represent a new political creature: the working-man liberal,\u201d Junger says in the piece. He goes on to man-worship Platner (and himself) by writing that the two were \u201cthe only people [in their swanky restaurant] who had been blown up in a war zone\u201d and that Platner was \u201cthe only Democratic candidate or congressman I wouldn\u2019t want to mess with, whereas the Republicans have at least half a dozen guys who could put me in a headlock.\u201d That\u2019s what I want in a senator!<\/p>\n<p>Some have continued to defend Platner after these latest revelations. Maybe the worst defense of the candidate came from acclaimed film and television producer Marshall Herskovitz, the man behind two shows I loved when I was younger, <em>thirtysomething<\/em> and <em>My So-Called Life<\/em>. I can\u2019t link to Herskovitz\u2019s ludicrous Bluesky posts, because after a few hours of backlash, he removed them. But I\u2019d copied one. The reaction to <em>Times<\/em>\u2019 Platner accusations, he wrote, \u201creveals why the Democratic Party has lost men. Is Platner accused of rape, assault, harassment? Nope. Just being a bad boyfriend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Actually, Fifield accused him of assault, Marshall. You should at least acknowledge that, even if you want to add that you don\u2019t believe her because she was a conservative.<\/p>\n<p>And <em>DropSite<\/em> writer Ryan Grim, who notoriously peddled serial liar Tara Reade\u2019s claim that, as a senator, President Joe Biden raped her, long past the point of credulity (Reade was also a known Vladimir Putin worshipper; she now lives in Russia) has taken the lead in itemizing Fitfield\u2019s GOP background. It\u2019s a service, I guess. Still, \u201cI believe Tara Reade but Lyndsey Fifield is a liar\u201d makes me distrust his judgment.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, Lyndsey Fifield has her own complaints about the <em>Times<\/em> story, saying it left out corroborating details, which she posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>All of this said, I\u2019m still glad I\u2019m not a Maine voter. Defeating Susan Collins is critical to Democrats\u2019 taking the Senate. The feckless Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, who pushed a reluctant Janet Mills into the race, then embraced Platner after the sexting scandal, and <em>then<\/em> hailed Collins for her 10,000th Senate vote (by the way, it was the vote to enhance ICE and Border Patrol funding), deserves a lot of blame here.<\/p>\n<p>That tilt-a-whirl performance aside, Schumer and establishment Democrats haven\u2019t invested at all in new candidate development or the state party infrastructure that would put them forward. And all Schumer\u2019s Senate recruits are either establishment Democrats or folks who would have run anyway (like former senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio). In Minnesota, he is reportedly encouraging big Dem donors to support corporate centrist Representative Angie Craig against progressive Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan; I could go on but I won\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, taking the Senate is crucial, but right now we have no guarantee Platner can. The polls show that the race between him and Collins has already tightened. And if you believe there aren\u2019t more muddy boots to drop, you\u2019re na\u00efve (though I hope you\u2019re right). He already admitted it was possible to Chris Hayes. And while I\u2019m not thrilled that the source of the most damaging allegations is a Republican, I also think: If she were doing this for Collins, wouldn\u2019t she have held this dirt until Platner had the nomination?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is a mess that I mainly blame on establishment Democrats who are afraid of genuine populist, anti-corporate insurgents, as well as on toxic lefty men who\u2019ve tried to shame anyone who raises doubts about Platner into silence. There\u2019s still a potent strain of misogyny on the left, and I\u2019m not going to shut up about it. Mainers, vote your conscience on Tuesday, whatever that is.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=208\">A Personal TomDispatch Farewell<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nation Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Graham Platner and the Rise of White-Male Identity Politics - Atlas Living Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=213\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Graham Platner and the Rise of White-Male Identity Politics - 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