Trump Is Incredibly Unmanly

Over at The Atlantic, Tom Nichols has a very good piece about Donald Trump’s “manliness” and more.

Here’s one paragraph:

But since his first day as a presidential candidate, I have been baffled by one mystery in particular: Why do working-class white men — the most reliable component of Donald Trump’s base — support someone who is, by their own standards, the least masculine man ever to hold the modern presidency? The question is not whether Trump fails to meet some archaic or idealized version of masculinity. The president’s inability to measure up to Marcus Aurelius or Omar Bradley is not the issue. Rather, the question is why so many of Trump’s working-class white male voters refuse to hold Trump to their own standards of masculinity — why they support a man who behaves more like a little boy.

Here’s another paragraph:

Donald Trump is unmanly because he has never chosen to become a man. He has weathered few trials that create an adult of any kind. He is, instead, working-class America’s dysfunctional son, and his supporters, male and female alike, have become the worried parent explaining what a good boy he is to terrorized teachers even while he continues to set fires in the hallway right outside.