Amanda Marcotte has an interesting article today at Salon.com, where she looks at the right-wing's increasingly bizarre fascination with sex in a weird way. From her article:
"The radicalism of the right is growing as the GOP careens swiftly towards nominating Trump as their presidential candidate, despite his 91 felony indictments in four jurisdictions. But, as anyone who has studied cults can tell you, they never limit their escalations to violence or hateful ideologies. There's almost always a weird sexual component, as cult leaders come up with ever stranger rules and regulations to control the sexual expression of their followers.
The MAGA movement is no different. The cult-like following of Trump always had an unsettling mix of incel-inflected misogyny, coupled with a homophobia that is somehow also homoerotic. But it's been rapidly getting worse in recent months. Even more frightening is how determined they are to inflict their sexual hang-ups on the rest of the country." (our emphasis)
She zeros in next on Fox News clown Greg Gutfeld, whose "humor" has become as funny as a heart attack. His recent musing that elections don't matter and that "civil war" is the remedy demonstrated that his veneer of a comedian is just that, a veneer masking his sociopathic authoritarian leanings. He's one of many that Marcotte expertly dissects. More:
"Sexual control, especially of women, is largely fueled by notions about 'breeding' future generations, especially to look a certain way that racists want them to. Normalizing violence against women is part of that scheme, since, as fascists long have understood, women often don't go along voluntarily.
Because this is so weird, it's tempting to ignore it as the chattering of a fringe group of men are still mad they didn't get laid in college. But that would be a mistake, and not just because some of those men have become wildly powerful." (our emphasis)
Like Chief Twit Elon Musk, who has become an idol to all of the misogynist incels that populate the far right world of manchild losers and wannabe studs. It's a thoughtful article and well worth the read.
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Cult behavior has always been one of my favorite areas of study. The sex component almost always includes the leader commanding that all females must be given to him for his pure seed, often as some god demands. For Trump, the only female he truly wants is his own daughter. He has been trying to normalize this desire for decades and his followers would not deny him Ivanka! But, Ivanka denies him because she is not a true believer and it appears her unwillingness makes him even more unhinged!! The light of his life and loins says no and that leaves him at his weakest!
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