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Graham Platner Is the Very ‘Toxic Masculinity’ Stereotype the Left Invented

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Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks at a campaign town hall meeting in Ogunquit, Maine, October 22, 2025.

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Transcription alone fails to convey the uniqueness of the characters who recruited Maine’s Democratic U.S. Senate nominee, Graham Platner, into the race.

The products of Yale, Harvard, and the University of California, Berkeley, Daniel Moraff and his fiancée, Leanne Fan, recently sat down with the Wall Street Journal — just prior to the “sexting” claims and credible allegations of assault against Graham — to explain why the self-described oysterman was just what the country needed.

Noah Rothman

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Noah Rothman

Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review. His third book, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence, was published by Hachette in May 2026.

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