Summary
Right-wing religious fanatics want women to have more children with bread-winning men. Donald Trump views masculinity as synonymous with physical toughness. The synthesis: instead of using prosperity to make family formation more appealing, what if we just crushed female employment and made most jobs manual labor?
In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:
* How Trump’s economic policy and disdain for white-collar professionalism might actually drive men into blue-collar work, and women into the kitchen.
* Why this is a bad idea!
* Whether Trump’s fear of backlash suggests Republicans will ultimately lack the courage of their convictions to stick with this attempted cultural revolution.
Then, behind the paywall, what, if anything, can liberal elites do to make progressive politics and the Democratic Party more appealing to men—particularly men who like the idea of working hard and playing by the rules to get ahead, but don’t like Trump’s lying, misogyny, and authoritarianism? Can quietly competent Democrats like Chris Van Hollen out “man” testosterone-addled incompetents like Pete Hegseth? And is the solution to this gender-driven tension for men to spend less time online and more time socializing?
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Further reading:
* Brian on how men can be manly without working in the mines at the behest of soft elites like Trump and Elon Musk.
* Matt on the gender politics of Trumponomics.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Honestly, so many of the problems we talked about in this episode could be solved if people, particularly men, had this duality in their lives so that they could be dipshits with each other in private. |
| 0:11.4 | But they remembered the kind of thing Kelly's teacher taught her about how you treat people in public. |
| 0:16.6 | Yes, do not wreck the economy in an attempt to restore traditional values. |
| 0:28.7 | Hey, everyone, you're listening to a free preview of the politics podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | This week, we'll talk about the gender politics of Trumponomics and really of Trump's whole worldview. |
| 0:36.2 | What's the connection between his obsession with men out of quote unquote central casting |
| 0:41.8 | and his appetite for chaos and incompetence in his administration or his vision of a manual labor workforce? |
| 0:50.9 | Who in his inner circle shares his vision and who's just kind of hoping to exploit it |
| 0:55.8 | to reestablish old gender norms and advance the cause of natalism. We'll get to all those |
| 1:02.4 | questions and more in this episode. So if you want to hear the whole conversation, you can upgrade |
| 1:06.4 | your subscription to paid at politics.fm. |
| 1:13.1 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to the at politics.fm. Hey, everyone, welcome to the politics podcast. I'm Brian Boiler. |
| 1:16.3 | I'm Matthew Glaze. Yes. So we talk a lot about how the realignment of cooks and conspiracy |
| 1:22.3 | theorists into the GOP is good for liberal smugness but bad for America. |
| 1:28.2 | And we have a whole thing laid out for this week. |
| 1:32.5 | But I kind of feel like we should throw it out, |
| 1:34.6 | be the change we want to see in the world, |
| 1:36.8 | and do a full episode about how J.D. Vance, like, quite obviously, |
| 1:41.0 | killed the Pope. |
| 1:43.0 | Yes, J.D. Vance, he gave him a Medusa-like stare. |
| 1:47.3 | You can see the photographic evidence is very clear. |
| 1:51.2 | He had the means. He had the motive. |
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