Graham Platner’s Country-cat Kayfabe: Is the Farmer Just a Faker?

He’s got his jeans and flannel shirt. He’s got the beard. He’s got the gravelly voice. He’s got the oyster farm.

And he’s got the radical beliefs — communism included.

Oh, Graham Platner, Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from Maine, also has that Nazi tattoo. It gets all the attention, but there’s an unasked question:

Is the man actually worse than his tattoo?

As to this, consider, for instance, Platner’s statement “I got older and became a communist.” That was made back in ancient times — in 2021.

This may bother a few old-fashioned types, since communists killed 60 to 100 million people in the 20th century.

That announcement was made on Reddit, by the way, where he also wrote, “All cops are bastards.”

Moreover, Platner agreed with a post calling rural white Americans “racist and stupid.”

This is even though they’re not stupid enough to, as a group, support youth “sex changes” — unlike Platner himself. Yeah, he’s for that.

Speaking of stupidity, this is partially what Platner now attributes his past statements and body “art” to. He has since smartened up, though. How much? He has chosen to be a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (even though “democratic socialist” is an oxymoron). He also believes in ending the Senate filibuster and packing the Supreme Court. The latter would, of course, ensure that the Court would simply rubber stamp unconstitutional far-left policy.

Molded and Packaged

So is Platner just another kayfabe Democrat? “Kayfabe” is a professional wrestling term referencing the false persona a wrestler assumes for marketing purposes — and political kayfabe abounds. Congressman Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), who can speak with finishing-school articulation, often plays a ghetto rat. State Representative James Talarico (D-Texas), who’s as radical as Platner, plays the Christian boy next door. And how genuine is the Maine candidate?

Commentator Mike McDaniel, a veteran himself, has drawn his conclusion. As he writes today:

Platner is the consultant-found and packaged Democrat candidate running to replace pseudo-Republican Susan Collins [note: Collins votes with Trump 90-96 percent of the time] in Maine. He’s the choice of a Democrat Party desperate to somehow convince the American men who have been fleeing from them in droves to return and once again embrace their anti-male, anti-American policies.

He’s everything Democrats think American men are and desire. He’s a scruffy-looking, bearded, beefy former Marine. He’s antisemitic, misogynistic, hates our military and America, masturbates in port-a-potties and brags about it. He’s an oyster farmer, whose farming consists of selling to his only customer: his mother who owns a restaurant. And perhaps best of all, for 18 years he proudly wore a huge Tottenkopf [sic] tattoo on his chest. We know this because he also has a tendency to go topless in bars.

This is something of a problem for Democrats because they’ve spent the last decade or so accusing Donald Trump and at least half of America of being Nazis and Hitler.

So Platner keeps lying about the tattoo. He says he got it as a young Marine and hadn’t the foggiest idea what it was. He didn’t ask the tattoo artist, either. Yet, McDaniel asserts, former girlfriends and friends say otherwise. They’ve stated that Platner told them all about his Totenkopf; he was proud of it. And now yet another ex-girlfriend has come forward. As PJ Media reports:

The former girlfriend, who spoke to the New York Post but was not named in the story, is a self-identified leftist. According to her, Platner knew exactly what the tattoo represented and kept it deliberately. Her account blows a massive hole in his story. Platner has insisted he didn’t recognize the symbol until last fall, but she says that’s a lie. She confronted him about it directly.

“As a person who is a leftist, I immediately looked at him and asked him, ‘Is that a Totenkopf?’ and he told me a whole, ‘he will hold this weight forever’ bravado sob story about how it was, but he decided to keep it as a reminder that the United States was the evil, bad guy overseas,” she told the Post.

Think about that for a second. He kept a Nazi tattoo as an anti-American statement. He knew it had Nazi origins, kept it for years, and used it to express contempt for this country. And Maine Democrats just voted to make him their Senate nominee.

But could this ex-girlfriend be lying? Not likely. As the New York Post tells us:

Her assertions were backed up by texts reviewed by The Post that she’d sent to her mom in September 2025 in which she blasted him for his “Nazi tattoo,” “small d—k” and claims that he tarnished her reputation by using her to step out on his fiancée.

Regarding the latter, the ex-girlfriend states that Platner cheated on his fiancée with another girlfriend as well. PJ Media says that this assertion is backed up by texts, too. It cannot be spun.

Stupid Jokes — or a Stupid Choice?

Platner deals with this by admitting that he made mistakes. And what of past internet iniquity? “A lot of it isn’t even things I believed then,” he told the Portland Press Herald in October. “A lot of them are just stupid joke comments.” Again, though, is the man — as he is today — worse than his tattoo?

Let’s review some more of Platner’s positions:

• Again, he wants to pack the Supreme Court.
• He has actually proclaimed, “Trans rights are human rights.”
• He supports sexual-distortion treatments (euphemistically called “gender-affirming care”) for minors.
• He opposes banning boys from girls’ sports and spaces.
• He has vowed to stand “right in the f*****g way” of anyone targeting “LGBTQIA+” freedoms (read: preferences).
• He supports a “strong federal guarantee” on abortion.
• He advocates a wealth tax, an idea with a history of chasing the successful away.
• He supports nationalized healthcare (unconstitutional).

Platner has also “suggested in online posts that violence is a necessary means to achieving social change,” reported Politico last October. He stated, among other things, that “an armed working class is a requirement for economic justice.” And this menacing sentiment does, of course, align with his earlier communist self-identification.

The bottom line? As The Maine Monitor revealed last month, Platner’s “identification with left-wing politics” is “consistent.” An exception is that he has been steadfast in his Second Amendment support. But how will this matter? Once he helped pack the Supreme Court, it would just endorse establishment-Democrat anti-Second Amendment policy. With support like that, who needs opposition?

Nonetheless, ask Platner and he’ll say he’s a new man. The problem is that the new man appears as bad as the old one.