Abstract
Donald Trump ran for President of the United States less on a policy platform than as an embodiment of masculinity, an eroticized power to fuck and fight, to rebound and protect America’s territorial body from alien penetration by non-white and non-Christian immigrants and to identify America with military force, not moral might. This was and is the content of Trump’s charisma, of his anti-institutional force that now threatens the liberal order abroad and at home. We have understood that sex has a power; Trump reminds us that power has a sex.
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The overall gender gap was one of the largest in American electoral history, a 13% gap of women to men for Clinton voters and an 11% gap of men to women for Trump voters (see “Exit Polls,” CNN Politics, Election, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls).
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Hochschild offered these characterizations while discussing her book Strangers in Their Own Land at the Puck Seminar at the Department of Sociology at New York University, on September 28, 2016.
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Research reported at the Scientific Study of Religion Meetings by Joshua Tom and Brandon Martinez, who analyzed data from more than 12,000 ever-married persons in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth.
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See the post, “Alpha vs Beta Traits,” created in 2015 by reddit.com user lovethebottoms, at https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comments/3j7b3q/alpha_vs_beta_traits/?st=jc21qruw&sh=596c56ee
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See the post, “Donald Trump represents the type of IDGAF, Politically Incorrect, Alpha Male that Modern Feminism is petrified of,” created in 2016 by reddit.com user JP_Whoregan, at https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comments/57nfgz/donald_trump_represents_the_type_of_idgaf/?st=jc3rvltp&sh=aa48e4c1
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Jeff Manza and Ned Crowley, “Countersubversive Entrepreneur: A Theory of the Rise of Donald Trump,” unpublished paper presented at the Sociology of Culture Seminar, September 2016, New York University Department of Sociology.
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Jeff Manza and Ned Crowley, “On Trump,” presentation to Sociology of Culture colloquium, New York University, September 22, 2016.
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Friedland, R. (2019). Donald’s Dick: A Man Against the Institutions. In: Mast, J.L., Alexander, J.C. (eds) Politics of Meaning/Meaning of Politics. Cultural Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95945-0_7
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