A native of West Texas, Williamson studied literature and linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin before joining the Bombay-based Indian Express newspaper chain in 1996. After serving as director of the journalism and media program at the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University, he joined National Review in 2008. He covers the intersection of economics, culture, and politics. His work has appeared in various publications across the country, and he is a regular television and radio guest. Williamson resides in New York City.
Kevin D. Williamson
Spend any time around the Trumpkins — the intellectually and morally stunted Oompa Loompas who have rallied to the candidacy of this grotesque charlatan — and you will hear purportedly heterosexual men working up freestyle paeans to Trump’s alleged virility — those “pussies in Washington†aren’t ready for “a real man like Trump,†as one put it — and cataloguing his praises in exuberant gonadal terms, with special attention paid to calculating the heaviness of the Trumpian scrotum relative to the equipment being packed by, e.g., Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio.
One says: “He is the only one that has the balls to tell the truth and to stand up for America." “Trum'’s got the balls," proclaims the headline in a right-wing blog. “Donald Trump is a perfect example of an alpha male," declares a commenter at (ahem!) Bodybuilding.com. “Alpha males lead for a reason,†retorted a Trump admirer when National Review’s Jonah Goldberg called for an “intervention†for the Trumpkins. Members of the GOP establishment, says another, “don’t know how to handle an extroverted alpha male personality like Trump†— ritualistic prostration of the faithful before Trump’s presumptive “alpha†social status being fundamental to the Trumpkin liturgy. Sensing the emergent theme, the left-wing columnist Michael Tomasky declared in the Daily Beast: “Trump’s got the GOP by the balls.â€