John Wayne Had It<\/p>\n
Manhood: one of the major themes of Trump World, and one of the major attack modes when Trump wants to go after someone. \u201cTired Jeb\u201d, \u201cLittle Marco\u201d, and now \u201cCowardly Leaker Comey\u201d: all allusions to some flaw in the victims manhood and sexuality. Obviously \u201cTired Jeb\u201d is suffering from low testosterone, unable to \u201cperform\u201d like a man; guess what\u2019s little on \u201cLittle Marco\u201d (who\u2019s sweaty too); and not only is Comey a coward, but he\u2019s a leaker (must need Depends).<\/p>\n
It\u2019s all about the Trump definition of Manhood, how a Real Man should act, what a Real Man cares about. In Trump world the definition of a Real Man is:<\/p>\n
1. A Man has so much money they no longer have to worry about the necessity of life<\/p>\n
2. A Man NEVER compromises, backs away from confrontation, or recognizes that someone who thinks differently might have valid points<\/p>\n
3. A Man has sex as a primary concern and goal, and women are simply objects to make him look better (and feel powerful)<\/p>\n
4. A Man cannot show emotion (other than rage) or compassion (other than a kind of fake concern for the \u201cworking man,\u201d something he\u2019s never done)<\/p>\n
5. A Man cannot be a woman (Crooked, Sick, Tired, Hillary)<\/p>\n
6. A Man should do “Manly” things like Donald Junior\u2019s Big Game Hunting, where they drive you to the animal, you shoot, and then you drive back to camp. Just like the women, it\u2019s the easy way to get the trophy.<\/p>\n
When Trump or his surrogates \u201ccall out\u201d James Comey for getting emotional, or deride him for \u201cleaking\u201d his own memos instead of putting them out himself, they miss the main point. Whether you agree with Comey or not (and I certainly don\u2019t agree with what he did regarding Hillary Clinton) Comey made a \u201cmans\u201d decision, and stood up for it. He risked and lost his job by standing up to power, and refusing to be illegally influenced. Like it or not Comey demonstrated everything about a \u201cbeing a man\u201d that Donald Trump couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Even in firing Comey, Trump took the cowards way out, announcing it on TV instead of informing him personally, so that Comey found out as he addressed his FBI agents in Los Angeles. In his television show, “The Apprentice\u201d<\/em>, Trump fired people face to face: in real life he wasn\u2019t \u201cman\u201d enough.<\/p>\n Sally Yates \u201cmanned up\u201d to the risks that informing the White House about Michael Flynn obviously entailed. She then did an even more \u201cmanly\u201d thing, she spoke truth to power, refusing to endorse the Trump travel ban (which has been confirmed by multiple courts, including the 9th and 4th Circuit Courts of Appeal.) For that she was sacked.<\/p>\n John Wayne played cowboys in Westerns. He established a character: slow to speak, slow to anger, powerful, compassionate, and was considered a \u201cman’s man.\u201d And while politically John Wayne represented a lot of conservative views I disagreed with, as an actor playing his role, John Wayne stood for rugged individualism, and for compassion, and for respect for women, and for being a man. That\u2019s a role that Donald Trump just can\u2019t play.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s defines manhood as an image, not a reality. His image of the \u201cboss\u201d with all of the trappings of the rich, misses what real men know: that a real man takes care of others and a real man values things greater than themselves. A real man is willing to dedicate his life to more than just himself: to serve others, his nation, his beliefs. A real man doesn\u2019t even have to be a \u201cman\u201d, just a courageous, compassionate human. And certainly a real man is not a whining, bullying, pretender like Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"