Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner has been caught promoting political violence and Communism in a series of now-deleted Reddit posts. The 41-year-old oyster farmer and Marine veteran, who is vying to unseat longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins, attempted to scrub his online history just before launching his campaign in August 2025. Unfortunately for him, archived posts paint a picture of a man deeply entrenched in socialist rhetoric, calling for an armed uprising and bashing police as “bastards.” Platner, running as a self-styled outsider focused on Maine’s working class, posted under the username “P-Hustle” in left-wing forums like r/SocialistRA and r/politics around 2018 to 2021. In one inflammatory post, he urged leftists to “Get Armed, Get Organized. The Other Side Sure As Hell Is.” In another,…
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