Posted on 05/25/2020 12:39:25 PM PDT by knighthawk
So many mysteries surround Donald Trump: the contents of his tax returns, the apparent miracle of his graduation from college. Some of them are merely curiosities; others are of national importance, such as whether he understood the nuclear-weapons briefing given to every president. I prefer not to dwell on this question.
But since his first day as a presidential candidate, I have been baffled by one mystery in particular: Why do working-class white men—the most reliable component of Donald Trump’s base—support someone who is, by their own standards, the least masculine man ever to hold the modern presidency? The question is not whether Trump fails to meet some archaic or idealized version of masculinity. The president’s inability to measure up to Marcus Aurelius or Omar Bradley is not the issue. Rather, the question is why so many of Trump’s working-class white male voters refuse to hold Trump to their own standards of masculinity—why they support a man who behaves more like a little boy.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
I guess they miss the girlie-man 0bama.
Obama, manly? Clinton,? Bush,? Nixon, ? Truman,? Roosevelt,? Written by an idiot
>> Why do working-class white men—the most reliable component of Donald Trump’s base—support someone who is, by their own standards, the least masculine man ever to hold the modern presidency?
How queer. We are told that we shouldn’t look to patriarchal cisgender stereotypes and then the yellow journalist press uses them to try to sway voters against a candidate.
The only person to take on/stand up to everyone? Okay...
And as to why working-class folks support Trump, take a look at this short video. Trust me. It’s really worth the click.
https://youtu.be/SoZQfoXhbc0
Is he a Fop or Dapper Dan man?
Pure unadulterated crap. By there own standards he should be considered an alpha-Male. There are more false premises in that first paragraph than I care to list. Some old MO—if you can’t beat them them with brilliance, baffle them with BS.
The manly Tom Nichols
My guydar is alarming with this writer of wrong things ...... (Projection of his on failures?)
But what would Laz do?
>>Written by an idiot
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/tom-nichols-why-im-leaving-republican-party/572419/
Why I’m Leaving the Republican Party
The Kavanaugh confirmation fight revealed the GOP to be the party of situational ethics and moral relativism in the name of winning at all costs.
OCTOBER 7, 2018
Tom Nichols
I am out of the Republican Party.
I will also acknowledge right away what I assume will be the reaction of most of the remaining members of the GOP, ranging from “Good riddance” to “You were never a real Republican,” along with a smattering of “Who are you, anyway?”
Those Republicans will have a point. I am not a prominent Republican nor do I play a major role in Republican politics. What I write here are my views alone. I joined the party in the twilight of Jimmy Carter’s administration, cut my teeth in politics as an aide to a working-class Catholic Democrat in the Massachusetts House, and later served for a year on the personal staff of a senior Republican U.S. senator. Not exactly the profile of a conservative warrior.
I even quit the party once before, briefly, during what I thought was the bottom for the GOP: the 2012 primaries. I didn’t want to be associated with a party that took Newt Gingrich seriously as presidential timber, or with people whose callousness managed to shock even Ron Paul. It was an estrangement, not a break, and I came back when the danger of a Trump victory loomed. I was too late, but as a moderate conservative (among the few left), the pre-2016 GOP was the only party I could call home.
FAG
Cry and want someone to friend him. Again.
Gay boy knows masculine when he sees it
The Atlantic To Lay Off 68 Employees, Cut Executive Pay And Freeze Salaries
https://deadline.com/2020/05/the-atlantic-layoffs-1202940481/
If this limp wristed panty waist thinks The President is not manly, most likely cannot define what it is to be manly.
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