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WNYC. Good morning everyone. You probably know by now about Donald Trump campaigning hard on

notions of traditional masculinity, right, to spread the gender gap wide with women so skeptical of him and hope to attract even more

men than he is losing women. Or as ABC News put it recently, the Republican nominee is amping up his hyper-masculine tone and support of

traditional gender roles, a reflection of the surgical campaign within a campaign for the votes of men.

How unsettled is it?

Well, ABC quotes the well-known right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk saying, quote,

if you are a man in this country and you don't vote for Donald Trump, you're not a man.

And some of you may have heard Trump's instantly infamous

owed to the golfer Arnold Palmer over the weekend

when he was campaigning in Pennsylvania.

And I say that it all do respect to women and I love women.

But this guy, this guy this guy this is a guy that was all man his man was strong and tough

Strong and tough Trump in Pennsylvania and what makes a man a man and I spared you, some of you

know the end of that clip where he actually praised Palmer as a real man for the size of his anatomy.

This is what it's come to.

And it's no surprise to you by now, I'm sure,

on his willingness to be both gross and retrograde, which is what really made the news about that

clip but here's what might surprise her that kind of appeal isn't just aimed at

older men who resent the fact that you know the old world patriarchy style is

falling out of favor and fear it's falling out of power it's also aimed at young

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