New York Magazine Mourns Exposure of Maine Democrat Golden Boy as Violence-Hyping Extremist

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Ah! It seemed too good to be true. A Marine veteran who was also an oyster-farmer man of the people who, as a Democrat, promised to take down Maine's Republican Senator Susan Collins in the 2026 election. The new Golden Boy of Democrats everywhere as well as an eager media who sung his accolades across the land.

Unfortunately for them, it all came crashing down as you can read in a sad report on Thursday by Benjamin Hart of New York magazine's Intelligencer section which bluntly proclaimed, "Graham Platner’s Honeymoon Is Over."

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2025/10/18/new-york-magazine-mourns-exposure-maine-democrat-golden-boy