I'm glad someone finally pointed out that the new "masculine energy" is extremely fucking childish. Grow up. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/trump-masculinity/681828/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-atlantic-am&utm_term=The+Atlantic+AM
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Which leads men to wonder what the fuck we're supposed to do next. Trump appeals to that because regressing into childhood is politics incarnate.
One edit: Trump won a plurality of voters (49.8 percent), not a majority.
https://www.tremr.com/julian-s-taylor/grow-up
They're like bad caricatures of movie/tv scenes. Just one kind of scene - over and over.
Maybe not the pinnacle of stereotypical masculinity, but those guys were pretty cute. Might JD be trying to capture that form of masculine energy? 😝
Not defending your wife from white supremacists is manly? Lying about Haitian immigrants eating dogs and criticizing the press like a petulant child?
The only thing he has going is he doesn't appear to be cheating like the rest of them.
You're in your 50s.
Seems like these guys have no clue what "masculine" is supposed to look like.
https://maxread.substack.com/p/soy-right-ascendant?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=392873&post_id=156853334&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l7d7&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Both disgusting and embarrassing.
"The Second Trump Presidency, Brought to You by YouTubers" https://bsky.app/profile/johnhatchard.bsky.social/post/3lgfmqwprqs2c
and hate women.
Many young men who live in the world of video games are so immersed in it that they have underdeveloped social skills. When they have to deal with the real world, they get angry because they don't know how to handle it.
Am I way off base?
Normally, this is impossible.
But Trump and Musk at least appear to have pulled it off.
A dream for many childish men.