The Most "Unmanly" President? Trump Is The Definition Of Right Wing Manliness

[Celerity]

There is no more weak and fearful creature than the white Republican voter.

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/the-most-unmanly-president-trump



Tom Nichols, one of the more prominent Never Trump conservatives, dropped an article in The Atlantic on Monday titled “Donald Trump, the Most Unmanly President.” Nichols did not call Trump out on his cowardice, lying, narcissism, corruption, or immaturity. Instead, he called out Trump’s supporters for clinging to a man who does not live up to their own image of what a man is supposed to be:

...I am noting that courage, honesty, respect, an economy of words, a bit of modesty, and a willingness to take responsibility are all virtues prized by the self-identified class of hard-working men, the stand-up guys, among whom I was raised. And yet, many of these same men expect none of those characteristics from Trump, who is a vain, cowardly, lying, vulgar, jabbering blowhard.

The key to Nichols’ entire article is just five words found in this passage: ...among whom I was raised. Nichols is 59 years old. Those manly men of his youth are long gone, replaced by a mob of terrified and aggrieved children, eager for a strongman to lead them. This is why they adore and worship Trump, a fact that Nichols would be aware of if he actually knew any of the people who comprise his former party’s base.

The Republican Party Is Full Of...Republicans?

Driftglass of The Professional Left podcast has been having fun with that line for the last couple of years at the expense of Never Trumpers. After decades of molding their party’s base into a frothing stew of easily manipulated paranoid bigots, they were shocked to discover that the average Republican could be easily manipulated by someone spewing paranoid bigotry at them. Now, Never Trumpers like Nichols make a living professing their outrage that the Republican base is exactly what he and people like Steve Schmidt turned them into while feigning total ignorance as to how this could have happened. But if they really didn’t know what the base was like, they’re not very good at their jobs. I knew exactly what they were like almost a decade ago when I first started writing about them.

This is from the third article I ever wrote back in 2011 (it’s awful so be kind):

No more shall the Manly Conservative stand before TV cameras and belligerently bellow “Bring it on!” while other Manly Conservatives fainted from testosterone overdose. No more shall they casually make racist jokes in public knowing that it was socially acceptable and even if it wasn’t, they did it anyway. Those days are tragically gone. The Manly Conservative, you see, evolved. Or rather, he DEvolved. The election of a black president combined with the almost total Democratic control of both Houses of Congress led to a freakish transformation. The Manly Conservative vanished, almost overnight, as the dinosaurs once did. In its place we find now the Whining Insecure Martyred Pussy or WIMP for short.

Yeah, it’s not my best work (double spacing? Ugh!) but even back then, political novice that I was, it was screamingly obvious that the entire concept of the “manly conservative” both Nichols and I had been indoctrinated with since we were kids was laughably false. But then again, unlike Nichols and Schmidt, who are quite wealthy and only hobknob with their fellow elites, I had been talking to random right wingers online for years at that point. Since then, I’ve had lovely chats with literally thousands of white Republican voters and contrary to what Nichols claims, Donald Trump is exactly their ideal of manhood.

The Rotten Fruit Of The Poisoned Republican Tree.....

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[smirkymonkey]

1. K&R

I'd have more to say at another time, but honestly I am too sickened to comment right now. He and his kind just repulse me.

[ibegurpard]

2. A bit out of touch isn't he?

This has been the state of the Republican Party for at least 2 decades. It's what they built with Fox News and AM radio.

[SergeStorms]

3. Trump is all mouth.

He's never fought a battle of his own in his life. He's always had his lawyers, body guards, and business managers fight every battle his galactic-sized mouth has gotten himself into. He's a coward. DONALD TRUMP IS A COWARD! His "tough guy" talk is just that, talk. If this is how republicans and his death-cult believe "manliness" is defined, they're more deluded than I previously imagined.

Donald Trump is to "manliness", as Malaria is to "homespun". Fucking right-wing lunatics.

[Celerity]

4. Trump thinks he is Billy Big Bollocks, but in reality he is a three inch todger-toting PAB

Link to tweet

[SergeStorms]

9. Very well stated.

Chrissy Teigen's "pussy ass bitch" is about as spot on as I've ever heard anyone describe El Trumpo.

[SledDriver]

5. White Republicans trying to cast that flabby, sundowning old man as a strapping alpha male.

[Celerity]

7. +100000

[dawg day]

6. I like your article!

Especially the last line.

[Celerity]

8. thanks!