Working-class zeroes: Radical socialist Democrats pretend to be blue-collar allies

Before Maine Democrat Graham Platner’s Senate campaign imploded due to credible sexual assault allegations, he had carefully cultivated an image as a working-class hero.

The rugged, bearded 41-year-old was a combat veteran and an oyster farmer.

“The Platner thing isn’t hard to understand,” the journalist Noah Smith posted on X before the community notes poured […] ...