{"id":2626158,"date":"2026-07-07T15:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-have-alienated-normal-men-now-theyre-stuck-with-graham-platners\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:41:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:41:35","slug":"democrats-have-alienated-normal-men-now-theyre-stuck-with-graham-platners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-have-alienated-normal-men-now-theyre-stuck-with-graham-platners\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Alienated Normal Men And Are Stuck With Graham Platners"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-have-alienated-normal-men-now-theyre-stuck-with-graham-platners%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2626158&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article criticizes the Democrat party for alienating customary, &#8220;normal&#8221; men by promoting and supporting candidates and policies that are portrayed as deviant or disconnected from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/educate-your-kids-in-american-history-with-heroes-of-liberty\/\" title=\"Educate Your Kids In American History With \u2018Heroes Of Liberty...\">mainstream american values<\/a>. It argues that Democrats have shifted away from appealing to typical masculinity towards endorsing individuals with controversial or questionable personal histories, exemplified by figures like Senate candidate Graham Platner and others who exhibit problematic behavior or associations. The piece attributes recent electoral losses and scandals to this strategy, suggesting that democrats&#8217; focus on portraying themselves with a &#8220;straight guy coded&#8221;&#8221; image is flawed and that thier continued rejection of &#8220;normal men&#8221; will lead to further political failures. The author also highlights scandalous incidents involving Democratic figures, emphasizing a perception of moral decline and emphasizing that such candidates do not resonate with traditional American voters.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-california-primary-election-season-is-screaming-a-warning-for-the-nation\/\" title=\"California&#039;s Primary Election Season Screams Warning For Nation\">article discusses mature themes<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because Democrats refuse to acknowledge the inherently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Traitors-Democrat-Partys-Collapse-Anti-American\/dp\/B0FR8XCMYC\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1XMOJGRZUR1NX&#038;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.PCDmPMX86i4dQNWyP1JRfnbN7HHT47FzuELeQK2oClbGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.FJNHIPbwO6YvQI9ciyVgupzX2CmyEEr5wUOLNMFS-o8&#038;dib_tag=se&#038;keywords=traitors+the+democrat+party%27s+collapse&#038;qid=1783444318&#038;sprefix=traitors+the+democrat+party%27s+collapse%2Caps%2C130&#038;sr=8-1\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Traitors-Democrat-Partys-Collapse-Anti-American\/dp\/B0FR8XCMYC\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1XMOJGRZUR1NX&#038;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.PCDmPMX86i4dQNWyP1JRfnbN7HHT47FzuELeQK2oClbGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.FJNHIPbwO6YvQI9ciyVgupzX2CmyEEr5wUOLNMFS-o8&#038;dib_tag=se&#038;keywords=traitors+the+democrat+party%27s+collapse&#038;qid=1783444318&#038;sprefix=traitors+the+democrat+party%27s+collapse%2Caps%2C130&#038;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">repulsive, anti-American essence<\/a> at the core of their views and positions, they continue desperately trying to convince themselves that the real problem isn\u2019t their policies. Instead, they argue, it\u2019s the bigoted voters who prefer electing straight (white) men over \u201cblack and brown bodies.\u201d That\u2019s why they keep saddling themselves with freaks like U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner.<\/p>\n<p>All the normal men who were in the Democrat Party are just about gone.<\/p>\n<p>The dynamic has been playing out for several years now. Democrats lost the presidency to Donald Trump in 2016 and ever since have maintained that the best way for them to win competitive elections is not to adopt more appealing positions, but to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/05\/14\/democrat-men-are-trying-to-fake-masculinity-and-its-painful-to-watch\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/05\/14\/democrat-men-are-trying-to-fake-masculinity-and-its-painful-to-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">conceal<\/a> their perverse drag queen identity beneath a corny, manifestly fraudulent aesthetic. We\u2019ll call it \u201cstraight guy coded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their latest attempt just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/07\/06\/graham-platner-sexual-assault-allegation-00987737?nname=playbook&#038;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&#038;nrid=0000014e-f115-dd93-ad7f-f915a6170001\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/07\/06\/graham-platner-sexual-assault-allegation-00987737?nname=playbook&#038;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&#038;nrid=0000014e-f115-dd93-ad7f-f915a6170001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blew up in Maine<\/a>, where Graham Platner is facing yet another accusation of sexual misconduct, as reported Monday in Politico. \u201cI remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,\u201d said Platner\u2019s accuser, 41-year-old Jenny Racicot, regarding an incident she alleges took place in 2021. \u201cI remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, \u2018This is no longer my choice.\u2019\u201d She said her twilight public confession, coming only after Maine\u2019s Democrat primary contest, was because she struggled with a \u201cmoral conflict\u201d between \u201csupporting his politics, but not supporting him as a person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Platner has denied Racicot\u2019s claim and previous accusations of abusive conduct. Incidentally, he has pleaded ignorance of the meaning of a tattoo on his chest that appeared to be a Nazi symbol before he had it altered late last year.<\/p>\n<p>If that weren\u2019t enough, Platner has also proudly told <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/06\/02\/what-graham-platner-did-at-his-brothers-wedding-revealed-his-repulsive-character-10-years-ago\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/06\/02\/what-graham-platner-did-at-his-brothers-wedding-revealed-his-repulsive-character-10-years-ago\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the story<\/a> about the time he took off nearly all of his clothes, exposing his puffy pink gut at his brother\u2019s wedding reception, where he obnoxiously sang along to a Miley Cyrus song, an act that Platner generously described as his \u201cwedding gift.\u201d This is who Democrats are dealing with.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just in Maine. It\u2019s everywhere. They nominated Joe Biden in 2020 on the \u201cstraight guy coded\u201d strategy, gambling that voters would accept the former vice president as normal and stable enough. He turned out to be just short of dead, and his presidency was an indisputable catastrophe. They\u2019ve nominated \u201cstraight guy coded\u201d James Talarico in Texas for U.S. Senate, a person who describes his still elusive girlfriend as his \u201crock\u201d and who is more preoccupied with the sexuality of children than Jeffrey Epstein. Talarico has also bragged about being a Christian who <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/06\/23\/exclusive-james-talarico-described-himself-as-a-christian-who-hates-christianity\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/06\/23\/exclusive-james-talarico-described-himself-as-a-christian-who-hates-christianity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hates his own professed religion<\/a> and declared it a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LoneStar_PAC\/status\/2072379498243207320\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LoneStar_PAC\/status\/2072379498243207320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">great accomplishment<\/a> that his \u201cchurch\u201d has had atheists as members.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats hate normal men, so this is who they have left to recruit \u2014 little goblins and fiends itching to crush the American middle class and wipe out Christianity, but while wearing a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >straight guy skin suit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It hasn\u2019t been entirely unsuccessful. They did manage to elect U.S. Sens. Ruben Gallego of Arizona and Jon Ossoff of Georgia, though neither of them drew nearly the national scrutiny as other straight guy coded Democrats. Should they run for president \u2014\u00a0as the dying media are certainly wanting them to \u2014 they will. Gallego will be seen in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2026\/07\/localimages\/1748877730571.jpg?w=3840\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2026\/07\/localimages\/1748877730571.jpg?w=3840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ridiculously tight jeans<\/a> and Ossoff is an aging twink, yet to be fully vetted.<\/p>\n<p>But for every Gallego or Ossoff there\u2019s an Andrew Gillum, who, it turns out, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/07\/07\/former-florida-governor-candidate-andrew-gillum-arrested-for-drug-possession-in-alabama\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/07\/07\/former-florida-governor-candidate-andrew-gillum-arrested-for-drug-possession-in-alabama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">just busted<\/a> (again) for alleged illegal drug possession. Recall that Gillum nearly became Florida\u2019s Democrat governor in 2018 before he lost to Ron DeSantis \u2014 and before he was found passed out naked on the floor of a hotel room stacked with drugs, and where Gillum had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/article-8134995\/Inside-hotel-room-married-Florida-Dem-Andrew-Gillum-overdosed-male-escort.html\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/article-8134995\/Inside-hotel-room-married-Florida-Dem-Andrew-Gillum-overdosed-male-escort.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">apparently been partying<\/a> with a male prostitute. Or as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/local\/2021\/02\/04\/andrew-gillum-gq-article-former-tallahassee-mayor-marriage-scandal-florida-governor\/4388986001\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/local\/2021\/02\/04\/andrew-gillum-gq-article-former-tallahassee-mayor-marriage-scandal-florida-governor\/4388986001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gillum\u2019s wife<\/a> might refer to that period: the good old days.<\/p>\n<p>So long as the Democrat Party continues hating normal men, pushing them away with their gruesome policy positions, there will only be more Graham Platners.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FR8XCMYC\">Traitors: The Democrat Party\u2019s Collapse into Anti-American Filth<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats&#8217; denial fuels their embrace of flawed candidates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2626159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Graham-Platner.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[3685,82358,82357,53612,5894],"class_list":["post-2626158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-democrats","tag-graham-platners","tag-normal-men","tag-party-divide","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Graham-Platner.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2626158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2626162,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626158\/revisions\/2626162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2626159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2626158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2626158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2626158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}