Democrats defend Platner’s toxic masculinity because they don’t understand men

Published June 1, 2026 2:22pm ET | Updated June 1, 2026 2:22pm ET



The inability of Democrats to understand male voters has ironically led to them constantly defending the toxic masculinity of Graham Platner in pursuit of political power.

Platner, of Nazi death camp tattoo fame, has found himself embroiled in yet another scandal. This time, it’s the revelation from his wife that Platner had exchanged sexual messages with multiple other women very shortly after their marriage. Combine this and the Nazi tattoo with the Reddit posts Platner made celebrating the Taliban shooting an American soldier, downplaying the Armenian genocide, and saying that women bore some responsibility for being raped, among other things.

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