It is rare to see a self-styled alpha populist so thoroughly emasculated as we have just witnessed with Graham Platner.

It was tough to watch. It brought back memories of Platner devotee Stephen King’s The Shawshank Redemption.

Ouch.

Just last week they loved him. He was all the rage.

But Maine Democratic honcho Devon Murphy-Anderson, the Maine Democratic Party establishment, and Chuck Schumer were not having it when the upstart oyster farmer decided to press on after the latest rape allegation came to light.

Just like that, Murphy-Anderson and the posse tied him up politically and treated him like a caught burglar in Graham Platner’s Washington, D.C., apartment.

Maybe they tied him down with all the hyphens that Murphy-Anderson and all the middle-aged women of Kennebunk use to assert their dominance over their eunuch “life partners” while preserving their WASPiness at the other end of the hyphen—just in case.

Broken and battered, Platner released a video Wednesday announcing that he is suspending his campaign against Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins, citing the withdrawal of support from party leaders and the Maine Democratic Party.

“For the movement to continue, it can’t be me,” he said, adding that he intends to file paperwork to formally withdraw from the ballot. He maintained that he completely denies the rape allegation against him.

Probably a wise move, just in case law enforcement comes calling.

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” That’s the iconic quote attributed to H.L. Mencken.

This time, it wasn’t just Maine Democratic voters who got it good and hard at the hands of the party establishment. Platner himself received the full gimp treatment from Washington, D.C., power brokers and their local enforcer by way of Florida.

Don’t complain, Graham.

Remember the words of a fake oyster farmer when posting on Reddit about women who get raped: Women should not “get so f*cked up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to.” And women should “act like an adult, for f’s sake” to avoid rape.

Act like an adult, “P-Hustle.”