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What attracts Trumptards to Trump?
Why Do People Embrace Hate? Sartre Has an Answer
A classic essay examines the hidden dynamics behind modern prejudice.
By Livia Gershon | May 8, 2026
https://daily.jstor.org/why-do-people-embrace-hate-sartre-has-an-answe
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What makes a person hate a particular group of people and support policies that harm them? Writing in 2020**, comparative literature scholar Judith Greenberg looked at French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre’s classic essay “Anti-Semite and Jew” in light of twenty-first-century American politics.
Sartre wrote the essay in 1944, as people around the world were learning the extent of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust. He was also grappling with the continuing power of anti-Jewish sentiment in France at the time.
Greenberg takes issue with the way that Sartre understood Jews themselves. Ignoring Jewish religious belief, history, and culture, Sartre equated Jewish identity with legitimate fear of antisemitic violence. He claimed that “it is the anti-Semite who creates the Jew.”
However, Greenberg notes that Sartre’s real interest wasn’t in Jewish perspectives but in what makes a bigot. In fact, Sartre explicitly wrote that in other contexts the same scapegoating purpose could be served by Black or Asian people. Today, Greenberg writes, we might also substitute immigrants, Muslims, or members of the LGBTQ community.
Sartre viewed antisemitism as a solution for the fundamental human problems of anxiety and alienation. In particular, he focused on how “being-for-others”—existing with the awareness of others’ perceptions—creates tension through the risks of exposing one’s inadequacies. Because of this, anyone may become overwhelmed by a social world with many different perspectives and demands, and by the possibility of getting things wrong.
To Sartre, antisemites are people who suffer from this insecurity and fear and are unwilling to do the work of adapting to cultural change and learning new things. This leaves them vulnerable to propaganda offering simple answers. The antisemite also revels in the release of constraints imposed by living peacefully in society with others and finds comfort in joining crowds of people like themselves.
“When gathered among other like-minded people, they celebrate their resistance to difference and difficulty,” Greenberg writes. “In creating fear for the scapegoat, they displace their existential anxiety and bolster themselves with a false sense of superiority.”
** A Situation of Fear: Revisiting Sartre in Trump’s America
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/studamerjewilite.39.1.0073?mag=wh
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“Real power is—I don’t even want to use the word—fear,” says candidate for president Trump during an interview with eminent journalist Bob Woodward and Robert Costa (2018, i).
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Typical for Trump: promise big, take the money, don't deliver on the promise, make excuses, spread confusion and uncertainty
MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits Back
By Chelsie Napiza | 10 May 2026, 7:28 AM BST
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-mobile-t1-phone-scandal-1795914
An estimated 590,000 buyers paid a £74 ($100) deposit to secure a Trump phone, collectively handing the venture roughly £43.7 million ($59 million). As of May 2026, not a single confirmed customer has received the device.
. . . Trump Mobile launched on 16 June 2025 at an announcement at Trump Tower, headlined by the president's two eldest sons and timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign launch. The T1 was marketed as a gold-coloured Android handset bearing an American flag on its back and bundled with a monthly service plan at £37.50 ($47.45) per month. Initial delivery was promised for late summer 2025.
That deadline slipped to November 2025, then December, then the first quarter of 2026. A mid-March 2026 T-Mobile carrier certification deadline also passed without resolution. By April 2026, Trump Mobile quietly redesigned its website, removing the release date entirely rather than replacing it with a new one.
NBC News, which placed its own £74 ($100) deposit in August 2025 to track the story, called Trump Mobile's support line five times between September and November 2025 and received inconsistent answers each time. A representative said in October that the phone would ship on 13 November, but it did not.
In January 2026, a call centre operator said the T1 was 'in the final stages of certification and field testing,' with a ship date 'sometime in Q1 2026.' That quarter has now passed. At one point, customer service representatives blamed a 43-day federal government shutdown for the delay, an explanation analysts quickly dismissed as irrelevant to a private-sector hardware company.
Updated Terms Strip Buyers of Guarantees
The clearest signal yet that buyers may never see either a phone or their money came with a revised terms of service published on 6 April 2026. The updated document states explicitly that paying a deposit 'does not constitute a completed purchase and does not create a binding legal contract.' The payment is described as 'a conditional opportunity to buy the device if Trump Mobile eventually chooses to sell it,' with the company retaining all control over whether a phone is produced at all.
The terms confirm that deposits will not accrue interest, are non-transferable and carry no independent cash value. Buyers who wish to cancel must submit a request through customer support before any final sale is completed. If Trump Mobile cancels the project outright, it says it will issue refunds of the original deposit amount. The fine print adds, however, that the company bears no liability for delays caused by 'parts shortages or hold-ups with regulators,' and that buyers waive any right to pursue claims beyond the original deposit figure.
Investigative journalist Joseph Cox of 404 Media, who attempted to place a deposit when pre-orders opened, found the process immediately chaotic. His card was charged the wrong amount, no shipping address was ever collected, and a confirmation email arrived promising delivery notifications that never came. Cox called it 'the worst experience I've ever faced buying a consumer electronic product.' He subsequently reported unauthorised recurring charges being levied against customers' cards.
Android Authority, which placed its own deposit in 2025 and has tracked the story since, wrote in January 2026 that it fully expected to 'never get a phone' and 'never see the $100 deposit again.'
The 'Made in the USA' Claim That Quietly Disappeared
The T1 was sold from day one on the strength of a single, politically loaded promise: it w
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36 neurologists, forensic psychiatrists and physicians from Harvard, Columbia, Tufts and George Washington just entered a formal statement into the Congressional Record declaring Trump mentally unfit for office. Not a political statement. A medical one. Signed by Nobel laureates. In the official record.
They cited worsening cognition, grandiose delusions, and severely impaired judgment. Then noted he has sole unchecked authority to launch nuclear weapons. Let that sentence exist in your brain for a moment. SOLE. UNCHECKED. NUCLEAR. AUTHORITY. 36 doctors said this is the problem.
Here is the Congressional Record: https://www.congress.gov/119/crec/2026/04/30/172/76/CREC-2026-04-30-pt
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Trump does not take criticism well. Rather than quote Trump's aggressive gibberish, satirists wrote Trump’s reply because he is easy to imitate and completely off his rocker:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
36 so called DOCTORS who probably went to very BAD medical schools, possibly the worst in history, are saying I am mentally unfit which is TOTALLY FALSE and also VERY UNFAIR!! My brain is PERFECT, possibly the greatest brain ever examined, Doctor Ronny Jackson said my cognitive test results were INCREDIBLE, he was WEEPING, big strong doctor, tears everywhere, never seen numbers like mine!! I know more about nuclear weapons than any of these fake psychiatrists, my uncle taught me NUCLEAR THEORY at MIT, tremendous theory, the best, and I have never once accidentally launched anything EXCEPT tremendous economic growth!! Grandiose DELUSIONS?? I AM ACTUALLY THIS GREAT, not delusional AT ALL, there's a DIFFERENCE, very important distinction that these so called Harvard doctors don't understand!! 59% of Americans think I'm mentally unfit but 59% of Americ also thought Hillary would win and we all know how THAT turned, TREMENDOUSLY!! The 25th Amendment is a DEEP STATE EEP STATE DOCUMENT planted by Soros and also Obama whose birth certificate is STILL missing!! MY BRAIN IS TREMENDOUS AND FULLY FIT!!
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Will our Hyper-Gilded Age Usher in Genuine Populism?
The tech bros are worse than the robber barons ever were — and voters are catching on
Paul Krugman | May 11, 2026
Elon Musk is no Andrew Carnegie
America used to be a middle-class society. But income and wealth disparities began rising rapidly during the Reagan years, and by the late 80s many observers began drawing parallels between the new era of inequality and the Gilded Age.
At this point, however, it’s clear that we are not experiencing a mere replay of the reign of the robber barons. We are living through something much worse. The tech bros make the “malefactors of great wealth” called out by Theodore Roosevelt look benign by comparison.
Some widely used measures of inequality suggest that income disparities, which soared in the 1980s and 1990s, have plateaued since then. But the concentration of wealth at the top is continuing to soar. Today’s oligarchs control a huge share of America’s wealth — much larger than their share even at the end of the 1980s:
The growth in wealth concentration is even more extreme if we look at the very, very top. Gabriel Zucman, one of the world’s leading experts on wealth and income inequality, argues that the concentration of wealth is now much higher than it was at the peak of the Gilded Age: https://gzucman.substack.com/p/standing-up-to-trumps-imperial-blackmai
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Tellingly, unlike the robber barons of yore, many modern plutocrats show little sense of gratitude for their good fortune, little inclination to give back to society by devoting a significant part of their wealth to good works. Forbes reports that Elon Musk and Peter Thiel have devoted almost none of their wealth to philanthropy, while Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are only slightly better.
More important than the stinginess of the superrich, however, is the fact that their wealth has brought great political power, arguably more than the robber barons ever possessed — power that they abuse on an epic scale.
Thanks to the Roberts Supreme Court’s “Citizens United” ruling, plutocrats are able to pump vast amounts of money into elections. Here’s a recent headline from the New York Times:
BILLIONAIRE BOOM
The Scale of Billionaires’ Campaign Donations is Overwhelming U.S. Politics
Billionaires made 19 percent of all reported federal campaign contributions in 2024, a Times analysis shows, and even more in some local elections. Wealthy donors are reaping the rewards.
One example of many: Peter Thiel bankrolled J.D. Vance’s Ohio Senate campaign, burying his Democratic populist rival under a flood of PAC money. Without Thiel’s big bucks, J.D. Vance would not now be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
And Elon Musk actually controlled a significant part of U.S. government operations in 2025 — control that he used, among other things, to eviscerate foreign aid. Those aid cuts have already led to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths, mostly children, with millions more deaths likely to come. https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=interval_m
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The big political question going forward is whether there will be a significant backlash against the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a small number of mean-spirited men.
I believe that there will be such a backlash, indeed that it is already starting, and that there is a political opening for some genuine populism if politicians have the courage to take a stand.
Polling suggests that an overwhelming majority of Americans — roughly speaking, almost everyone except MAGA Republicans — now consider the gap between rich and poor a major problem:
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The Assassin’s Delusion
Violence serves an authoritarian agenda.
By Adam Serwer | May 12, 2026, 7 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/assassins-delusion-backfirin
g-violence/687135/
People keep trying to kill the president. The closest call came in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 2024, when Donald Trump (then a candidate) had his head grazed by a bullet. Other apparent attempts include an incident at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, and possibly another that resulted in a Secret Service shooting at Mar-a-Lago in 2026. The latest would-be executioner, at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, was stopped long before he got anywhere near Trump. Nevertheless, these repeated incidents are disturbing symptoms of an obsession with vigilante violence that has infected the country.
No figure on the left in a position of power comparable to that of the president has called for violence the way that Trump has—but the sentiment that he deserves to be killed is easy to find online. Imagining that assassinating a president would solve any kind of problem is delusional. Presidents are chosen by the electorate; their supporters and their politics do not disappear when they die.
Thinking that you live in an action movie is also delusional. The wannabe assassin at the dinner showed up, allegedly, to kill the most protected man in the world with, The New York Times reported, “a shotgun, a handgun and knives.” In real life, violence is not like in a video game. You do not have a health bar you can refill with pixelated roast turkeys. The man is lucky to be alive, and his chances of success were always near nonexistent.
Thinking that an assassination would advance a political cause is likewise delusional. The only cause these attempted assaults have benefited is Trump’s. His main preoccupation since the dinner has been justifying the illegal construction of his lavish ballroom. But on Thursday, he tried to leverage the horror with which Americans react to political violence to criminalize a political opponent—demanding that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries be prosecuted for “inciting violence.” Trump posted on Truth Social a photo of Jeffries with a sign reading maximum warfare that was meant to promote Democrats’ redistricting success in Virginia. The phrase—certainly extreme—had nothing to do with the assassination attempt, Jeffries said; he chose it because it had originally been used by an anonymous Trump associate who told The New York Times that the White House political strategy was “maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.” The charge was absurd, but Trump wasn’t going to miss the opportunity.
The greatest delusion of all—one shared by both the would-be shooter and the president he targeted—is that violence is an expression of strength, and nonviolence a symptom of weakness. Now, I am not a pacifist. I do not believe that violence is always wrong. And I am not arguing that it is always ineffective. But the Trump administration’s greatest failures have been connected to its obsession with violence, and its opponents’ most dramatic victories have resulted from the organized and courageous use of nonviolence.
The Trump administration scrapped an already existing diplomatic accord with Iran in favor of war, and now finds itself desperately trying to reach an inferior agreement to end that war before the conflict crashes the global economy. Its immigration crackdown, which has killed at least four Americans and produced scenes of brutality associated with dictatorships, has contributed to the president’s plummeting approval ratings and Republicans’ diminishing chances in the midterms. The entire world watched as Trump tried to crush the Twin Cities with an army of masked officers, only to be defeated by ordinary people who loved their neighbors enough to risk their own lives to defend them.
The success of that kind of nonviolent civic resistance is not an anomaly. Around the world and across history, nonviolent campaigns have triumphed against even the most brutal regimes. A
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The Chinese view Trump as an ‘accelerator of American political decay.’
For decades, many Chinese viewed the United States with a mix of admiration, envy and resentment. President Trump’s volatile second term shattered that image.
By Li Yuan | May 12, 2026
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/business/china-trump-xi-decline.htm
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When President Trump visited China in late 2017, Xi Jinping welcomed him with a grand display of Chinese history and culture: a four-hour private tour of the Forbidden City culminating in a performance by the Peking Opera.
Eight years, a pandemic and two trade wars later, Mr. Trump is returning to Beijing, where the theme of future dominance, not ancient majesty, has filled domestic and international headlines with articles about dancing robots, drone swarms and the quiet hum of electric vehicles.
China increasingly casts itself not as a fading civilization trying to catch up to the West but as a superpower poised to surpass it. Chinese nationalists and state-linked commentators say they have Mr. Trump to thank. America under his rule, they say, validates Mr. Xi’s worldview centered on “the rise of the East and decline of the West.”
For decades, many Chinese viewed the United States with a mix of admiration, envy and resentment. America represented wealth, technological sophistication and institutional confidence. Even critics of Washington who reviled the American system often assumed that it worked. Mr. Trump’s ascent and his volatile second term shattered that image.
In January, a nationalistic Beijing think tank affiliated with Renmin University published a triumphant report about Mr. Trump’s first year back in office. The report argued that his tariffs, attacks on allies, anti-immigration policies and assaults on the American political establishment had inadvertently strengthened China while weakening the United States. Its title: “Thank Trump.”
The report called Mr. Trump an “accelerator of American political decay,” with the United States sliding toward polarization, institutional dysfunction and even “Latin American-style instability.” His hostility toward China, the authors argued, was a “reverse booster” that unified the country and helped bring about its strategic self-reliance.
“At this turning point in history,” the authors wrote, “what we hear is the heavy and haunting toll of an empire’s evening bell.”
Such language, once confined largely to nationalist corners of the Chinese internet, has increasingly entered mainstream political discourse.
Evidence of this shift is measurable: The use of terms related to “American decline” in official Chinese sources nearly doubled in 2025, according to a study by two Brookings Institution researchers.
The narrative of American decline did not begin with Mr. Trump. For years, Chinese state media and nationalist pundits have highlighted mass shootings, homelessness, political polarization and economic inequality in the United States as evidence of the failures of Western democracy. More recently, official outlets embraced the viral phrase “kill line,” borrowed from video game culture, to describe what they portrayed as the irreversible downward spiral facing America’s working poor. It’s a familiar tactic of the Communist Party to distract the Chinese public from the country’s own issues.
But Mr. Trump’s return to office and his administration’s erratic decision-making in both domestic and foreign policy have supplied the propaganda machine with plentiful fresh material. Images of immigration raids, the Minneapolis shootings and bitter political infighting circulate widely on Chinese social media alongside triumphant commentary about American dysfunction. What once sounded to many educated Chinese like exaggerated propaganda increasingly feels, to some, observational.
A 31-year-old education consultant in northern China who advises families on overseas study told me that parents who had once aspired to Ivy
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[Trump had much to learn in 1991, but he didn't]
Warren Buffett Exposed the Top Reason for Donald Trump’s Business Failures
The contrast between these two men’s approaches to money is not merely a matter of temperament. It reflects fundamentally opposed theories of how wealth is built and sustained.
By Jade Small | May 13, 2026
https://theheartysoul.com/warren-buffett-donald-trump/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/warren-buffett-exposed-the-top
-reason-for-donald-trump-s-business-failures/ar-AA235ja9
Few moments in modern business history are as prescient as a single Q&A session at a Midwestern university in the spring of 1991. A student stood up and posed a deceptively simple question to one of the world’s most respected investors. The answer that came back was brief, calm, and, as history would eventually confirm, almost prophetically accurate. It didn’t make the front pages that day. There were no breaking-news alerts. But the diagnosis delivered in that university lecture hall would prove to be one of the most precise autopsies of a business career ever recorded, delivered while the patient was still operating.
The investor was Warren Buffett. The subject of his analysis was Donald Trump. And the single word at the center of Buffett’s explanation, leverage, would go on to define not just Trump’s early business failures in the 1990s, but a pattern of financial behavior that would later be scrutinized in a New York courtroom three decades later, producing one of the largest civil fraud penalties in American history.
What Buffett said that day was simple enough for a college student to understand. What it revealed about the mechanics of financial failure was something business schools have been teaching ever since.
The 1991 Lecture That Became a Masterclass
Buffett cautioned students to avoid borrowed money during a question-and-answer session at Notre Dame in 1991, using Donald Trump’s troubled casino investments to explain the life lesson.
The question, as posed by the Notre Dame student, was direct: where did Donald Trump go wrong?
Buffett’s answer cut straight to the core. “The big problem with Donald Trump was he never went right,” Buffett said. “He basically overpaid for properties, but he got people to lend him the money. He was terrific at borrowing money. If you look at his assets, and what he paid for them, and what he borrowed to get them, there was never any real equity there.”
That final sentence is worth pausing on. Equity, in financial terms, is the difference between what an asset is worth and what is owed on it. It is the genuine ownership stake, the real value that belongs to you after the debts are stripped away. Buffett recounted how Trump made his assets appear to be worth much more than they really were. Trump’s approach was to lock in property loans at prices far higher than their true value, which meant he also incurred significant debt to acquire them in the first place. The assets looked impressive on the surface. The numbers underneath told a different story.
At that 1991 lecture, Buffett estimated Trump owed “perhaps, $3.5 billion now, and, if you had to pick a figure as to the value of the assets, it might be more like $2.5 billion.” Trump was “a billion in the hole,” which, Buffett noted, was actually better than being $100 in the hole. “If you’re $100 in the hole, they come and take the TV set. If you’re a billion in the hole, they say ‘hang in there, Donald.'”
The Warning Buffett Had for Every Investor
What made the lecture memorable was not only Buffett’s dissection of Trump’s finances. It was the broader principle he drew from it. “I’ve seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage – leverage being borrowed money. Donald Trump failed because of leverage. He simply got infatuated with how much money he could borrow, and he did not give enough thought to how much money he could pay back,” Buffett said.
His advice to the students was unambiguous. “You really don’t need leverage in th
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Late-Night Truth Social Bursts Offer a Peek Into Trump’s Mind
WSJ analysis shows president using the platform to spread conspiracies, attacks
By Anthony DeBarros and Annie Linskey
WASHINGTON-Monday was a typical day for President Trump. He took questions in the Oval Office. He met with members of Indiana University’s championship football team. And he had dinner with law-enforcement officers in the White House Rose Garden.
After the sun went down, another familiar ritual began: late-night social-media posting. The president’s Truth Social account posted 55 messages between 10:14 p.m. and 1:12 a.m.
The messages, mostly reposts from other accounts, falsely claimed that the 2020 election was stolen, aired frustrations from anonymous social-media users that Democrats hadn’t been indicted by the Justice Department and called for the arrest of Barack Obama for, among other things, a claim that the former president “fabricated” the U.S. finding that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump win the White House.
The activity is emblematic of Trump’s account, which operates as a nearly round-the-clock, high-volume amplification system that blends his own voice with a network of partisan and fringe content.
Since the start of his second term, Trump’s Truth Social account has ballooned to 12.6 million followers, up from about 8.6 million. The president himself—with the help of staffers—has posted at least 8,800 times, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.
Monday was one of 44 similar spates of a dozen or more Truth Social posts published from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. since Trump returned to the White House. Last Dec. 1, from 8:17 p.m. until just before midnight, the president’s account posted nearly 160 times—more posts than on any other day in his second term.
Trump’s messages that night included reposting an item calling for the deportation of all Somali Americans and reposting a message saying Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D., Ca.) should be jailed for allegedly having planned the Jan. 6, 2021, attack of the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters.
The bursts of social-media activity feature content from other accounts—including images, videos and text—that appeal to the president and his team. The nighttime missives often include some of the president’s sharpest and most divisive messaging, amplifying conspiracy theories, describing migrants as a threat to the country, threatening to punish his adversaries and mocking his opponents—all while giving a platform to obscure, anonymous accounts.
The account’s most active nights have been driven by posts featuring videos and screengrabs from users on X and other social-media platforms. For example, in the early-morning hours of Jan. 5, days after a successful military operation in Venezuela, Trump’s account posted nearly 90 times in the span of an hour.
The posts included a video clip of Trump saying that Somalia isn’t a nation, “it’s just people walking around killing each other.” Since January 2025, the account has published more than 120 posts critical of that country or its people, including posts disparaging Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat and prominent member of Minnesota’s Somali community.
The posts leave the public with a stew of presidential musings and reposts, many of which are published while people in the U.S. are asleep. Most of the messages get little scrutiny, disappearing into the cascade of posts on his account.
Much more at https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-late-night-truth-social-st
orms-that-offer-a-window-into-the-president-s-mind/ar-AA233xYf
https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-truth-social-late-night-posts-167cb
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Download today’s Wall Street Journal from https://tinyurl.com/2mpdd47p
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Men Who Don’t Want Women to Vote
By Helen Lewis | May 14, 2026
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/06/conservative-masculinism-
misogyny/686939/
Douglas Wilson has a modest proposal to improve American life: He wants to repeal the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the vote. In his ideal system, “we would do it in our politics the same way we do it in our church structure,” he told me recently. “And that is, we vote by household.”
Wilson is a co-founder of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, based in Moscow, Idaho. Over the past five decades, he has built a small empire there, dedicated to disseminating his theocratic vision for the United States: a publishing house, a school, a liberal-arts college, and a video-streaming service. His denomination, which has about 170 affiliated churches, counts Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as a member, and Wilson was invited to lead a prayer service at the Pentagon in February. So when the pastor casually suggests disenfranchising half of America, people listen.
When I asked him about this position, Wilson said it wasn’t his top priority—“We have bigger fish to fry”—but something he sees happening in perhaps 200 years’ time. I found this intellectual footsie maddening. “If I said to you, ‘I think all white men should be put in cages—but not now; it’s not my aspiration for now,’?” I suggested, “then you wouldn’t be interested in a single other thing that I had to say at that point.”
Wilson chuckled. “Oh, I know you’d probably have all my attention.”
This is twinkly, avuncular Douglas Wilson, the guy who joined a hippie congregation fresh out of the Navy because he liked to play guitar, and ended up leading services once the regular pastor moved on. The same guy who once went on a multicity debating tour with the New Atheist Christopher Hitchens, and bonded with him over their shared love of P. G. Wodehouse. But the 72-year-old shows a different side on his website, Blog & Mablog. For more than two decades, Wilson has been airing piquant opinions on unruly women—or, as he calls them, “small-breasted biddies,” “harridans,” “lumberjack dykes,” and “Jezebels.” He once referred to Gloria Steinem and another feminist as “a couple of cunts.” And this is the polite version. Every year he celebrates “No Quarter November,” when he promises to tell readers what he really thinks.
Wilson believes that women should “not ordinarily” hold political office, and should never serve in combat roles in the military. Husbands should have dominion over misbehaving wives’ weight, spending habits, and choice of television programs. His uncompromising vision for America was once considered marginal, the conservative writer Karen Swallow Prior told me. Since his elevation by Hegseth, however, “no one can credibly say that Doug Wilson is fringe anymore.”
Wilson is a prominent voice in what is sometimes called “masculinism”: a movement to fight back against the advances of feminism and reassert the primacy of men. His version is religious, influenced by the notion of male “headship” of the family and Saint Paul’s belief that godly women should “be quiet.” There are also plenty of secular masculinists, as well as nominally Muslim ones, such as the streamer Sneako, the self-proclaimed pimp Andrew Tate, and the podcaster Myron Gaines. Woman-bashing plays well on social media and sells lots of ads for crypto, sports betting, and supplements. You can make good money telling men that they’re the truly oppressed sex.
But this isn’t just a movement of grifters exploiting a quirk of the algorithm. In the past decade, one of the New Right’s major challenges has been to retrofit a consistent ideology onto the electoral power of Donald Trump. Masculinism has been a great gift, because factions with different views on, say, protectionism or Israel or Big Tech can all agree on the overreach of feminism and the need for a return to traditional gender roles. Far from
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Women voting ruined America, so there is that.
If women didn't vote, there wouldn't even be a Democratic Party.
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Be Nice. Don't be a dick. 
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