He's been treated as a wunderkind, and why not? He's David Axelrod's protege, and the "genius" behind getting one of the most dangerous politicians in America elected, and one of the most depraved candidates running in this election cycle, the near-lock on Maine's Democratic Party Senate nomination.
Katz is, indisputably, very good at his job. Unfortunately, his job is helping to create the illusion that some of the very worst people in the world are down-to-earth and relatable, and that people like Zohran Mamdani and Graham Platner will be the saviors of America. He turns privileged, wealthy, and radical communists into charming men who won't show their zeal to slit your throat until they get elected.
New York Times in January: “He’s 26 and Ready to Fix the Democrats’ Strategy”
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) May 31, 2026
Morris Katz by May is threatening people. https://t.co/dN9bCynlmS pic.twitter.com/hbAnJiuW0u
Katz himself is the product of New York's upper crust, with wealthy parents and a zeal for creating fantasies out of thin air. His first love was screenwriting, but he found his true talent was finding communists and polishing them up to become viable candidates for office.
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) May 26, 2026
If Mamdani's success helped turn him into a superstar, Platner's rise is his pièce de résistance. He took a genuinely insane man whose passion was teaching Antifa and trans activists the methods of armed assaults, and who went off to war with the goal of killing people, into an everyman who could brush away one of the most popular governors in America and drive her out of the primary with ease.
Katz knew all about Platner's flaws. His goal was to shape the entire narrative despite them.
Graham Platner's Reddit posts blaming rape victims can HELP Dems "win back... the young men we've lost," his handler, @katz_morris, told @davidaxelrod.
— Joel Mowbray (@joelmowbray) June 1, 2026
Why? It shows Platner is "one of them" & a "real person."
Katz is a top Dem strategist.
This is what he thinks of young men. https://t.co/iA1Y2AOuN4 pic.twitter.com/zM10gUXY73
The brains — and enforcer — behind Graham Platner is @katz_morris, Zohran Mamdani's media guru.
Katz is the new David Axelrod, who mentors him.
And the Pod Save bros love Katz.
AFTER Katz publicly savaged a female former staffer, he got @jonfavs to write a now-viral tweet defending Platner.
Obama's former media guru did Katz's bidding after Axelrod's protégé tweeted, "There should be no place in our politics for incompetent, opportunistic operatives who violate privacy, betray trust, and prioritize vengeance over decency."
This morning, it came out that Katz had threatened Platner's former campaign manager, Genevieve McDonald, with a smear campaign before the WSJ story published.
Since the revelation of Katz's threat, Jon Favreau has been silent.
Also silent has been Katz's mentor and close friend, David Axelrod.
So when you see the closing of ranks behind the Nazi-tattooed misogynist, just remember it's literally a protégé of Obama's media team using brute force to make that happen.
Welcome to the Democratic Party of 2026.
Katz is the face of amoral postmodern politics. Of course, political consultants are almost always amoral, and none of them give a whit about morality. But Katz's gift is his utter confidence that the Narrative™ is everything, and he knows how to shape it like a movie script without worrying about pesky things like reality.
What level of white male privilege is it when the female whistleblower is the one facing threats for exposing the truth? https://t.co/eAdgRAS2LM
— Holden (@Holden114) June 1, 2026
Katz, a chief strategist for the communist wing of the Democratic Party, may like to talk about "kindness," but his primary strategy is to frame everything as a fight against the worst villain imaginable and to be utterly ruthless with anybody who gets in his way.
NEW FROM ME
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) June 2, 2026
Morris Katz, a top advisor to embattled Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, admitted in a 2019 blog post that he has also send explicit material to people in the past.
"I've sent nudes and I've received nudes," Katz said.https://t.co/k0YoKkjpgG
And, as with all leftists these days, he is a moral degenerate. He wrote a "young adult" book about sex, and his publisher had to convince him that putting a picture of Katz's own penis in it was a bridge too far. But it shouldn't surprise you that a man like this would viciously bully a female campaign worker and threaten her with retaliation for ratting out Platner's Nazi tattoo and history of using women in what shall we say is an ungentlemanly way.
Katz's strategy, after all, is to go for the lowest common denominator in the "manosphere" while keeping the rest of the base solid.
Katz's association with Axelrod is the key to understanding his meteoric rise, and in turn is evidence that the Obama folks want to seize the progressive wing of the party for their own ends. (Which is why I believe they are grooming AOC as a potential presidential candidate, as I have argued recently.)
People assume that Platner's rise followed soon after he entered the race and caught fire, but that isn't really true. The groundwork was carefully laid months prior to his entry into the race. As Jim Geraghty pointed out in his article, even before he was a candidate, he was getting profiles in major outlets, and the buzz went wild even before he took off into the stratosphere.
Completely wrong, which you would know if you bothered to click through and read.
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) May 26, 2026
The New York Times is not in the habit of writing a largely glowing profile of every long-shot, little-known Democrat who announces a bid for Senate. Platner was the harbormaster of Sullivan,… https://t.co/6RBscqm2uv
The New York Times is not in the habit of writing a largely glowing profile of every long-shot, little-known Democrat who announces a bid for Senate. Platner was the harbormaster of Sullivan, Maine, population 1,246.
Yet the Times wrote its profile of Platner _before_ he officially announced his campaign, in August.
In September, The New Yorker wrote its own 3,400-word profile of Platner, emphasizing how he “devoured books on military history.” (But remember, he insists he never recognized the tattoo on his chest as a symbol of the Nazi SS.) Again, The New Yorker almost never writes long-detailed profiles of little-known Democratic Senate candidates one month after they announce their bid.
Then in October, GQ – not primarily a political magazine, and not one that often spotlights candidates – published its own large spread of Platner with lots of photos.
Then in November, the culinary magazine Bon Appetit – again, not in the habit of covering obscure Senate candidates – wrote another glowing profile, this one entitled, “How Graham Platner Went From Working-Class Oysterman to Maine’s Zohran Mamdani.”
This is Beto O’Rourke-level national coverage, right out of the gate.
Katz, because of his ruthlessness and undeniable talent for lying with scripts, is the hand-picked consultant for the communist wing of the party, which apparently Obama's team wants in on.
Mr. Katz has helped to select, mold and make ads for a crop of rough-hewed, gruff-voiced Democratic candidates throughout the country, including the Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner. This makes Mr. Katz a kind of casting director for a future Democratic Party whose members wear Carhartt and aren’t afraid to say “hell” and “damn.”
“He has a vision in his head,” said David Axelrod, the media strategist who masterminded Barack Obama’s two presidential campaigns and has shared notes with Mr. Katz.
They sense the populist fervor, and if Joe Biden was their puppet in 2021-4, they are looking for the next one for 2028.
Of course, the party's organized-crime wing is striking back, which is why they are trying to take down Platner before he makes it onto the general election ballot.
Graham Platner got his five minutes of fame on The View today....safe to say the ladies were not impressed.
— Maine GOP (@mainegop) June 1, 2026
"This man should be nowhere near Congress."
"he's a cheater, he's an anti-semite...he's a liar, a racist....a homophobe....character does matter."
"There is no doubt… pic.twitter.com/isVrBQqaXy
Graham Platner got his five minutes of fame on The View today....safe to say the ladies were not impressed.
"This man should be nowhere near Congress."
"he's a cheater, he's an anti-semite...he's a liar, a racist....a homophobe....character does matter."
"There is no doubt that this guy Platner is flawed, flawed, flawed in many ways."
Only...I don't think they have a Morris Katz or the messaging genius. They have Pravda, but not all of it. Pravda is splitting between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks right now. Still, a massive number of liberal commentators on TV are suddenly blasting Platner out of nowhere, and that, too, is an op. It is part of the fight between the party's two wings.
Egbewole: Platner is cosplaying working class. He wears it as a Halloween costume. That has been placed on him by the same people who have run a lot of Progressive candidates across the nation pic.twitter.com/4lz0ZmPYka
— Acyn (@Acyn) June 2, 2026
Will the organized crime wing win this battle? Well, it is a rematch. They already tried to take him out with Janet Mills, who suddenly is talking about still being on the ballot, but Platner doesn't seem like a man who has any shame. He just needs to stick it out for three weeks, and the Democrats are stuck with him.
You can rest assured that Katz will be arguing with him to stay in, unless Axelrod tells him it's over.
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