Kent G. Bailey sees the warrior in Donald, and sees it as something different these days:
In 2006, I published a column suggesting that Ann Coulter was the last of the “real men” on the intellectual right… She has wonderfully set the stage for her male warrior counterpart, Donald Trump, who takes primal maleness to levels unseen for at least half a century. The everyday people of America long for strong warrior male leadership of the kind that has sustained the human race from the dawn of time.
Although he recognizes the trend, he fails to see the r-selected adaptation of humans to free resources as the source of the problems of late, however. Neither does he see that Donald is thriving due to impending resource shortage, and people seeking a warrior leader to help them win in those lean times.
In the past 60 years or so, America has become progressively feminized, and the archetypal warrior male has virtually disappeared. However, some tough ladies have stepped in to fill the vacuum including Phyllis Schlafly, Laura Ingraham, Sarah Palin and Michelle Malkin and many others. But how would any of these wonderful and strong women compete head-to-head in a private conference room with Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un of North Korea, or the mullahs and emirs of the volatile Middle East? We have seen how poorly our current girly-man-in-chief, Barack Obama, has dealt with the world of violent supermales out there. From the dawn of time, mutual respect among warrior males is the coin of the realm in these matters.
As a practical matter, women can only compete so long as resources are so prolific that men do not care. Even among men, as resources grow short, only a certain subset will prove capable of surviving, and among that subset compassion, emotionality, and sympathetic connection to others outside their own clan will be limited to non-existent. It is a very different mindset to what we have grown accustomed to seeing around us today. Let resources shorten to the point that someone will die, and the Putins and Trumps of the world will take action, and the Megyn Kellys will need to find such a man to protect them. Speaking of Kelly…
Fox News’ Megyn Kelly seems to see herself as an alpha female capable of taking on any and all opposition – male or female. Yet, when set against the unadulterated masculine intellectual powers and cunning of Donald Trump, it was not a fair fight. She was overpowered to the point of speechlessness and had to take a 10-day vacation to lick her wounds. When the ladies operate within a protective penumbra of political correctness in a highly feminized culture of girly men, it is pretty easy to win intellectual pillow fights.
Times are changing, and they favor the rise of Trump, and the rise of America. I was wondering today, what would the nation’s media do if instead of one Donald Trump ridiculing them in this election cycle they had ten, or fifteen? What if every candidate simply ignored their petty insults, ridiculed their political correctness, and reframed everything as the media’s failure to be realistic, rather than scrambling for approval like they do today?
That may be what Trump is giving us. It will be interesting to see how many politicians in future election cycles abandon the politically correct style of campaigning, and begin to ape his style. We may even see them begin pouring over the Heartiste archives, as they try to understand the mysterious secrets of Game, and social dynamics.
We have much to thank Donald for.
