Hammer meet nail. Born of suppression of emotions and anxiety, it’s a learned - socio/cultural behavior that drives MAGA. It’s based in fear of losing control and having to relinquish just a little bit of power.
“The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’”
Sigmund Freud didn’t know the answer to this question back in 1913. It remains a mystery to many in 2024.
But what we do know now is that American women don’t want Donald Trump. In the latest NBC News poll, American men supported Trump by 52 percent to 40 percent. American women were for Kamala Harris by 58 percent to 37 percent.
This confirms my long-held suspicion that women are in general a lot more sensible than men, have better judgment than men, and have a greater capacity than men to think for themselves. It is American women who’ve come to the altogether reasonable and evidence-based judgment that Harris will be a better president than Trump. It’s American men, swayed by suppressed emotions, unresolved anxieties, odd fixations, and—yes—a touch of hysteria, who support Trump.
Trump finds this annoying. So he’s recently taken to lecturing American women that he’s their man. Last night, at a rally in Pennsylvania, he told women that “You will be protected, and I will be your protector.” He also informed them they “won’t be thinking about abortion.”
This was a follow-up to Trump’s social media post late last week, in which he asserted, in all caps, that if he wins “WOMEN WILL BE HAPPY, HEALTHY, CONFIDENT AND FREE!” He went on, speaking directly to women, “YOU WILL NO LONGER BE THINKING ABOUT ABORTION.”
So says a man who famously stated, “when you’re a star, they let you do it,” who was found liable for sexual abuse, who repeatedly boasts of overturning Roe. But this is Trump’s view: He should get to do what he wants to women. He should also get to tell women what to think. And of course women should be grateful to their beneficent guide and protector.
Trump’s followers share this view
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/when-the-p ... -protector
