Steve Robinson

He was like a punk internet communist type guy.

But they saw a vision of a masculine guy who had military service and lived on the coast of Maine.

And they figured they could use the same kind of political consulting that gave us Mayor Mamdani and Senator Fetterman.

They are describing him as an

Oyster Man.

That's a joke here in Maine.

There's no such thing as an Oyster Man.

There's a GQ profile that was written about him that is just dripping with homoeroticism.

It's the craziest thing I've ever read.

But they call him an Oyster Man.

And it's not a thing.

There's oyster farming.

But then the other thing is that his oyster business is not even a business.

It's a hobby.

So he has a hobby where he occasionally grows oysters, which he sells to his mother's restaurant and he lives off his disability payments.

And also his father is a lawyer and his grandfather is a famous architect.

So he's projected this image that he's like a crusty barnacle

on the coast of Maine, working class guy, just like everybody else.

But he's a child of privilege, comes from an elite family, doesn't really work or have a business.

And to the extent that he has military service, he's totally rejected that.