Trump isn’t an icon of positive masculinity. He also did very little for young men during his four years as president

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    2 months ago

    I realized like you that it is not the content or the actions, it is a brand that appeals to their emotions (and the grown-ups too who got conditioned to react to a type of branding over the years). It’s just like selling an Adidas.

    And it’s tragic, because he stands against everything they could ever gain…like an opioid…which reminds me of the Shady Vance quote:

    In 2016 and 2017, Vance, then best-known for penning the best-selling book “Hillbilly Elegy” said Trump was “cultural heroin” and “just another opioid” for Middle America.

    https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/15/politics/kfile-jd-vance-comments-trump/index.html

    and this olympic gold for spinelessness (a posteriori):

    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/opioid-of-the-masses/489911/

    lol

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      yeah, i was surprised, i live in europe, you know, i dont know anything. so i was watching this conservative panel, and they were all saying that they realized he does not have the same ethics as them at all, it was comical how they tried to explain it to the MAGA people.

      thanks for links, thats a good read