The leftwing defense of Graham Platner is rooted in a false Democratic vision...
A fantastic article published by The Guardian this morning - One which requires absolutely no editorializing:
Tolerance for behavior like Platner’s is tied to a wrongheaded theory of the male working class. Zohran Mamdani illustrates a different path.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/30/graham-platner-male-working-class
One suspects that what is at stake in the pundit defenses of Platner and his masculinity is not so much about electoral outcomes as it is about an idea of what makes power legitimate. When the likes of Lovett, Grim and Burgiss suggest that tolerance for behavior like Platner’s is needed to win elections – an idea that seems to have very little esteem for men and workers, both – they might actually be signaling not so much what they need to do to win, but what kind of victory would be worth having.
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"The notion that the Democratic Party is losing because it has been too feminized ... catering too much to women, and being insufficiently deferential to domineering, gruff, physically imposing and implicitly white, rural men, the party ... lost voters they most need to recruit: that is, the working class, imagined here, as they so frequently are, as brusque, bigoted, ignorant, vulgar and male."
Majority of low-wage workforce are female, of course, and the U.S. manufacturing jobs began disappearing from the '70s, yet Democrats are bashed by populists stuck in the '60s for somehow ignoring the imaginary majority of coal mining factory working men who shower at the end of the day and yearn for class revolution. Ridiculous.
read it. 
