Emasculated white men love Donald Trump: The real reason a billionaire bozo rules the GOP. Trump's rise is directly related to a certain white male limpness -- and their fear of a female president.Read more here.
Here are ten ways Trump plays to emasculated white men:
1. The Siegfriedian super-provider
...Many American men have fears of failing their wives and families as “providers.” Enter Trump, the instinctive, but – despite occasional missteps – at the core amazingly sure-footed psycho-political strategist.
With his constant references to how many people he employs and pays, he casts himself, at least subliminally, as a super-provider.
2. The anti-Hillary shield
Not only do they have to contend with a world where women are more successful at university level.
Coordinating careers and family lives, American women have also proven vastly superior to men when it comes to multitasking – a pivotal attribute in our ever more complex lives and workplaces.
3. The American dreamer
While Arnold Schwarzenegger’s entire image is rooted in being muscle-packed, Trump’s is that he gets his way with good-looking women, whether on reality TV or in real life (and all of it while doing high-powered business deals).
His admiring audience is sure of one thing: The Donald never backs down when challenged by women, including by the steeliest of them.
4. The lancer
...Never apologize. Never back off. Always be on the offensive – and count on the other side retreating.
Based on this stance, despite all his relative ignorance and rudeness, Trump simply oozes confidence. Under his wing, men feel paradoxically protected.
He acts a bit like the medieval knight who, full of unshakable belief in himself, rides straight ahead at the opposing knight, certain that he will knock him off his horse.
Most amazing of all, Trump doesn’t seem to care even to put his visor down as he accelerates on horseback to lance his opposing number.
5. The underdog
At a popular level, Trump manages to capture the emotional elixir of many Hollywood movies devoted to the subject of being elected President of the United States. Kevin Kline’s “Dave” (1993), Chris Rock’s “Head of State” (2003) and Robin Williams’ “Man of the Year” (2006) — all in their own ways — are thus scripts for the Trump campaign.
What these Hollywood dreams all have in common is that they feature a completely unlikely candidate as being on the road to take the White House.
...As with Trump, these movies’ particular narrative arc is that the candidate’s ultimate success becomes all the more certain as serious, basically insurmountable obstacles are thrown his or her way.
6. The mirror image
Trump is a true nightmare for the Republican Party. In the past, it excelled in driving forward policies that benefitted the country’s rich, while putting up candidates for President who were not all that rich — and certainly not ostentatious about it.
Trump makes mincemeat of that finely calculated “modesty.”
7. The devil
The party has subliminally used its anti-abortion stance as a “wedge” issue, to create a sharp contrast to Democrats. More fundamentally, it has used this issue as its very own way to hold women in check to this very day.
Enter Trump. He upsets the Republican apple cart with a simple two-step maneuver: First he deliberately highlights his rivals’ anti-women policies and he then creates a strong contrast to his own positions – by vowing to stand up for “the whole issue of women’s health.”
8. The killer executive
Ever the one to up the ante, Trump has already cleverly staged his self-inoculation against further charges of misogynistic tendencies.
Talking about women in business in particular, he has stated that “They are amazing executives. They are killers.”
9. The gambler
Call it genius, dumb luck, unbelievable or whatever, but where it’s game over for everybody else, Trump always manages to find a new trap door — for himself as much as for other people’s emotions.
10. The greatest reality TV producer
Trump is a master of that art from his shows on NBC. His biggest campaign weapon thus is the subconscious connection that is embedded in so many Americans’ psyche today.
For the viewers, these shows are a pressure valve. For Trump, it is the ultimate thing money cannot buy – a tool to entertain himself, while casting a true spell over the entire nation.
Meanwhile, back at the Chateau, commenter Mork writes,
The provocative headline apart, doesn’t the content of this article basically boil down to “Trump is an alpha male, and people respond subliminally to an alpha male”?
In other words, the only difference between this and what CH writes is that CH thinks that’s a good thing, while this guy is disturbed by it.
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