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Graham Platner in an old video, showing off his Nazi tattoo.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I was a big Graham Platner skeptic from the beginning. Even before the news came out about his Nazi tattoo.<\/span><\/p>

Read more Soccer: The Preferred Sport of the Credentialed Progressive Elite<\/a><\/p>\n

And I was skeptical of James Talarico for very similar reasons, reasons before the GOP released a single opposition research video attacking him.<\/span><\/p>\n

On one of my group chats, an occasional sparring partner expressed surprise that I had known from the beginning that Platner would produce a disastrous collection of scandals.<\/p>\n

But I really have no special insights that most people don\u2019t have\u2014save one.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s call it the Platner Paradox.<\/p>\n

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  1. The Democrats perceive that they need to run candidates who are straight white Christian men to win in certain jurisdictions\u2014and maybe even nationally.<\/li>\n
  2. No normal straight white Christian man today would want to be deeply involved with the Democratic Party.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Even many Democrats embrace the first part of the paradox.<\/p>\n

    AnAxios\u00a0piece in March that got a lot of attention was entitled \u201cSome Dems\u2019 2028 Strategy: a Straight, white, Christian Man.\u201d And that, according to Axios, is \u201cTheir fear, divulged with dismay in group chats, at cocktail parties, and increasingly in public, is that parts of the electorate are too biased to support a woman or other diverse candidate for president.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

    The Axios article noted the following:<\/p>\n

    Former first lady Michelle Obama fueled such talk recently, saying the U.S. is \u201cnot ready for a woman.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Democratic strategists have put it bluntly, with several saying a version of \u201cIt has to be a white guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Now, I happen to be fairly confident that, just as they are wrong about most things, they are wrong about this<\/span>. They are projecting their own<\/span> racism, which is omnipresent, onto the electorate. But what\u2019s important for understanding Democrat behavior is that they<\/em> think it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

    One could only look at the 2024 election to falsify their claim. Trump\u2019s gains, which led him to victory over Harris, as opposed to \u201cScranton Joe\u201d Biden, were overwhelmingly concentrated among minority voters.<\/span> He won Hispanic men\u2014the first time a GOP candidate has done that in modern history. By contrast, Trump had only very small<\/span> gains among white voters. White voters were just as happy to vote for Harris as they had been for Biden\u2014minority voters weren\u2019t\u2014and not because of her sex or the color of her skin but because of the content of her character.<\/p>\n

    The reason, of course, that normal straight, white Christian men won\u2019t become leaders in the modern Democrat Party is simple. The Democrats hate straight white Christian men\u2014organizing against them, and their interests as a class is essentially a requirement of participating seriously in Democratic Party politics.<\/p>\n

    There wasn\u2019t a single, straight, white Protestant man among Biden\u2019s 25-person cabinet. Of the 97 federal judges confirmed under Biden during his first two years, five were white men, and 22 were black women. Being a Democrat means endless genuflecting to George Floyd, condemning America as a \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d society, etc. Normal, healthy, white men are not going to sign up for that environment.<\/p>\n

    Part two of the paradox also isn\u2019t really so mysterious either.<\/span> Trump carried nearly three-quarters of white male self-identified Christians. Timothy \u201cSarah\u201d McBride appears to be the only white male Christian Democrat under 40 in the House\u2014and he\u2019s a \u201ctransgender woman.\u201d New Mexico\u2019s Martin Heinrich and Connecticut\u2019s Chris Murphy are the only white male Christian Democrats under 55 (barely) in the Senate. Only California Governor Gavin Newsom and Andy Beshear of Kentucky (son of a previous governor) are white male Christian Democrats under 60 in governors\u2019 mansions. (Interestingly, the Democrats have five white Jewish governors under 60\u2014a group that could become much more endangered over time with the Democrats\u2019 strong anti-Israel turn.)<\/p>

    Read more Politics Isn\u2019t Fair (Bianco Should Have Won)<\/a><\/p>\n

    Now, having stated the Platner Paradox plainly, let me qualify it a bit. The paradox is really more of a Millennial and Gen Z phenomenon. Gen X and older voters (age 45+) came of age at a time before the Democrats went completely insane with anti-white (and in particular anti-white Christian male) rhetoric. People develop political patterns and affiliations in their youth that don\u2019t just break immediately even when party ideologies shift. It took maybe 130 years before the Democrats\u2019 hold on the \u201csolid South\u201d was really broken, despite that region being conservative the entire time.<\/span> A small percentage of Republicans abandoned the party when Trump took it in a new direction, but far more stayed.<\/p>\n

    Older politically active Democrats have networks, relationships, and careers\u2014so many of them are not just going to walk away from those; they will grin and make the best of the disaster that is the modern Democratic Party.<\/span> Thus, you can have a superficially somewhat sane, normal Democrat like Roy Cooper in North Carolina, who has served as governor and is now running for senator. His father was also a state leader in the Democratic Party. But he\u2019ll turn 70 years old this year, and people like him are not being newly minted.<\/p>\n

    Simply put, normal, psychologically healthy people do not join organizations dedicated to hating them<\/span> and demeaning them and people like them. Therefore, the Democrats can only recruit certain types of white men for leadership roles: (1) Sociopathic opportunists<\/span> willing to lie repeatedly and say anything\u2014and<\/span> very skilled at doing it without ever making mistakes\u2014these<\/span> sorts of people don\u2019t go on trees; and (2) people with very strange and otherwise disqualifying character flaws and secrets that <\/span>make them either hate themselves or their own community\u2014or at least tolerate those who do. This type is much more common.<\/p>\n

    So for Platner, it\u2019s the Nazi tattoo, and <\/span>the woman-beating, and <\/span>the vulgar behavior in bathrooms and group chats, etc., and the cheating on his wife, etc. The Democrats are trying to sell the story that \u201che\u2019s a veteran,\u201d \u201che\u2019s an oyster farmer,\u201d<\/span> \u201che\u2019s working-class.\u201d But of course, he\u2019s an ex-Blackwater mercenary, he lives mostly on disability benefits, and his \u201coyster farming\u201d is more of a hobby with all of the sales going to his mom\u2019s fancy restaurant. He has a fancy prep school background, and his grandfather was a distinguished architect. He\u2019s not a working-class hero. He\u2019s a classic downwardly mobile elite. It\u2019s all as predictable as it is tiresome.<\/p>\n

    We saw a similar phenomenon in a very different manifestation with Talarico in Texas. Democrat organizers who presumably have little interaction with normal white people think those people will like Talarico because he is \u201cChristian\u201d and a seminarian. They have no theory of mind for white conservatives, so they expect we will somehow find this<\/span> impressive. But Talarico\u2019s heresies are worse for actual Christians because he commits them under the Christian banner. It\u2019s one thing to shout<\/span> your abortion. It\u2019s another to shout<\/span> your abortion in the name of Jesus, as Talarico wants women to do. Everything about him is incredibly weird\u2014the self-loathing of his white skin, his past vegan campaign, his love for \u201ctrans kids,\u201d etc. An actual candidate with mass crossover appeal in Texas would be something like a Hispanic male, pro-gun veteran with relatively centrist politics. But instead we have oddballs like Talarico because that\u2019s what liberals falsely think will appeal to the center-right.<\/p>\n

    This isn\u2019t to say that Platner and Talarico can\u2019t win. In a good enough national environment for the Democrats, even very bad candidates can be dragged over the line.<\/span> But it will be despite their qualities as candidates, not because of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Now Democrats do have a potential white male savior candidate for 2028. Gavin Newsom is an utter sociopath with some political talent\u2014he will say or do anything shamelessly. But his act really doesn\u2019t work on a lot of<\/span> people. And ultimately, he won\u2019t be able to run from his disastrous record of failure<\/span>\u2014California has led the nation in outmigration during his tenure. And that\u2019s not a record that even a smooth talker can run away from easily. And for every plausible Newsom the Dems trot forward, there are a hundred Platners and Talaricos.<\/p>\n

    There is, of course, an easy answer to the Platner Paradox for the Democrats\u2014I\u00a0wrote a book\u00a0suggesting what both parties could do to increase their appeal to white voters. In the Democrats\u2019 case, they could begin by just stopping with the anti-white racism and then really appealing to the legitimate interests of the white electorate.<\/p>\n

    If they did, they might find<\/span> that they no longer needed to nominate sociopaths just to try to win elections.<\/p>

    Read more J.D. Vance Refers Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and AG Keith Ellison to DOJ\u2019s Fraud Division For Criminal Investigation<\/a><\/p>\n

    Until then, the Platner Paradox will continue to plague them.<\/p>\n

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    This article was originally published on June 8, 2026, on <\/em>Substack<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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