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Anonymous ID: fb0361 Jan. 28, 2024, 5:07 p.m. No.20320990   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1036 >>1045

 

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@balajis

THE MEN’S PARTY

 

Republicans are becoming the men’s party. The party of strong men and the women that love them.

 

This is both obvious and non-obvious.

 

Obvious because the Republicans have been attacked for decades as the party of “rich straight white men”, so of course they’re the men’s party! Non-obvious because this actually means a distinct shift in emphasis relative to the recent past. Let us count the ways.

 

1) First, the Republicans are no longer the party of “white men”, but anti-anti-white men. It’s a big tent; you just need to extend the common courtesy of not attacking white conservatives and libertarians on the basis of race.

 

2) Second, it’s not just the party of men. Because married men, married women, and single men all vote Republican.As of 2022, only single women vote Democrat[1]; the state is their surrogate provider and protector.(not 100%, I know a lot of single women that are conservative)

 

3) Third, it’s now the party of strength. That could be actual physical strength in its Bryan Johnsonian or BAPian variations. It could be financial strength like Thiel or technological strength like Elon. It could be prowess with arms like Erik Prince or prowess with words like Vivek. Or it could simply be the moral strength to assert that the X and Y chromosomes exist.

 

4) Fourth, it’s not really the “multiracial working class party” that Sohrab Ahmari has been talking about. The Republicans certainly are more multiracial and arguably more working class than the past…but that’s because they’ve pulled in men from those groups who respect strength and are repelled by victimology.

 

A Republican today could well be a working class carpenter, but wants to get wealthier some day, and maybe run their own business. And they might be nonwhite, but they don’t define themselves by their race nor make a habit of attacking white people as white.

 

In other words,they don’t define themselves by their victimization but by their aspiration. Democrats are the party of victims, Republicans are the party of men.

 

5) Fifth, modern Republicans are ultra-libertarian. It’s about individual ownership of firearms, redecentralization of power to the states, deregulation, Bitcoin, and anti-institutionalism. There is some continuity with Reaganism, but far less emphasis on military service and far less trust in centralized authority. Much more sigma male than company man.

 

6) Perhaps the single biggest thing about redefining the Republicans as primarily the men’s party is that it ensures they are always competitive.

 

No matter what happens demographically, the percentage of men is flat at roughly 50% — and everyone has strong men they admire and respect. That gives all-weather traction and global appeal.

 

So, that draws the political battle lines. On one side, strong men of many ethnicities and the women that love them. On the other side…the opposite of that.

 

[1]: https://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/1787170/no-one-benefits-more-from-the-destruction-of-the-american-family-than-the-democratic-party/

 

https://x.com/balajis/status/1751195368417829213?s=20

Anonymous ID: fb0361 Jan. 28, 2024, 5:25 p.m. No.20321080   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1224 >>1421 >>1562 >>1634

Connor Tomlinson

@Con_Tomlinson

A new Financial Times article has shown a widening gap in political values between Gen Z men and women

 

People are over-estimating how much of this is caused by social media brainwashing; andunder-estimating how much of this is caused by hormonal birth control

 

As Dr.

@sarahehillphd

found, dosing young women with artificial progesterone inhibits their cortisol response –meaning they mismanage stress

 

When women are on the pill, though, their morning cortisol peak is lower and their daily cortisol curve is flatter than what is observed in most healthy adults

 

They have 170% more corticosteroid-binding globulins than naturally-cycling women. This protein binds to cortisol and renders it inactive

 

(See the graph below from a study of women's cortisol response (nanomoles per liter) to the Trier Social Stress Test, on and off birth control)

 

Because they respond less to stress, this may be why they are less phased to support policies such as defunding the police, or allowing illegal immigrants to enter their countries without identification –because they do not process the elevated risk they face of becoming victims of violent crime

 

This could also explain why a brain-imaging study of 90 healthy young adults (61% female) found that those identifying as politically liberal had an atrophied amygdala compared to those identifying as conservative. The study did not control for whether or not its female students were taking birth control at the time

 

The pill also, by neutralising the high-estrogen phase of a woman's fertility cycle, makes them averse to men with markers of high testosterone

 

This includes:

  • Finding scents with higher concentrations of testosterone metabolites less appealing

  • Finding faces with higher testosterone features (such as jaw and brow definition) less attractive

  • Choosing partners who are more agreeable while on birth control than those they have chosen while off it

 

Pill-taking women also don’t experience increased activity in the reward centersof their brain when looking at pictures of their partners. So they are less likely to oxytocin pair-bond with the men they partner up with

 

If women don't appreciate or are instinctively disgusted by disagreeable, masculine men while taking hormonal birth control, it's no wonder why so many young women they gravitate to misandric or gender-abolitionist brands of feminism

 

The Conservative government in the UK made it easier last year for young women to get birth control at a pharmacy, without a GP appointment – despite the (sometimes) lethal side effects

 

Dosing women with artificial hormones which make them dislike men and unable to recognise danger from their mid-teens has been a disaster for society

 

Material and biological influences drive social change more than abstract ideas

 

The pill is (probably) causing a great political divide that men and women will struggle to heal from

 

Women, stop taking it

 

Men, stop encouraging women to take it to have consequence free sex

 

Because the consequences are civilisation-wide

 

Source:

https://ft.com/content/29fd9b5c-2f35-41bf-9d4c-994db4e12998

https://sarahehill.com/your-brain-on-birth-control/

https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092984/

 

https://dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1342239/Brain-study-reveals-right-wing-conservatives-larger-primitive-amygdala.html

 

8:53 AM · Jan 26, 2024

 

https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson/status/1750879564065038413?s=20

Anonymous ID: fb0361 Jan. 28, 2024, 5:36 p.m. No.20321127   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1135 >>1224 >>1421 >>1562 >>1634

Jan 25, 2024 -

=Behind the Curtain: Trump's exponential power surge. 1/2==

Jim VandeHei Mike Allen

 

Something shocking — and telling — has unfolded beyond Donald Trump's onstage, online and courtroom theatrics: He's running a professional, well-managed, disciplined presidential campaign.

 

His 2024 operation is more sophisticated — dare we say traditional — than the slapdash improvisation of his White House and two previous runs.

Why it matters: Trump likely will wrap up the nomination in record time, with almost universal GOP establishment backing.

 

If he were to win — and run the White House like he has his campaign — he could reshape America and its government more quickly, and in more lasting ways, than he did during his first term.

Winning the nomination fast and decisively speaks only to his power with the activist GOP. Exit polling showed lots of New Hampshire Republicans won't vote for him, especially if convicted.

 

But his hand is a helluva lot stronger than most expected a year ago.

Between the lines: Many top Republicans assumed that, after the Capitol riot, no one sensible would go near him. The campaign would be fringe and cringe. Instead, Trump has rolled up the party even tighter than he did when he was president.

 

Now the GOP's biggest donors and power brokers not only figure he'll quickly become the nominee, they assume he'd beat President Biden if the expected rematch comes to pass.

 

Trump is the strongest politically that he's ever been within his party.

Reality check: Trump has surrounded himself with pros, but he's still Trump — an incendiary and chaotic messenger.

 

You see it in the unhinged, all-caps Truth Social posts. You saw it in his fuming rantabout Haley on Tuesday night. He could say anything at any time.

 

Our conversations with Trump officials, allies and alumni reveal the off-the-rails public Trump has a more conventional, buttoned-up operation built around him. His advisers see this as a template for governing if he were to win.

Here's how he did it:

  1. Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita, the top two officials at the Palm Beach-based campaign, run a tight, lean ship.

 

Wiles is a former top political adviser to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis who left on bitter terms. LaCivita is a former Marine with decades of brass-knuckle campaign experience. Along with well-connected Trump senior adviser Brian Jack, they put in place a methodical process for Republicans to seek Trump's endorsement for congressional and statewide offices. This machine gave Trump leverage with rising stars throughout the party, along with extensive data about their home-state political operations.

Trump campaign staff members get along, stay in their lanes and don't leak like sieves — all dramatic changes from his past operations.

The campaign saves endorsements for opportune unveiling times. Aides have spreadsheets to track what material they've sent to which reporters.

This is in stark contrast to the infighting and improvisational madness of Trump's first term.

 

  1. The Trump team has methodically wired obscure state Republican delegate rules to his advantage. Operatives have worked state by state over the past three years to be sure he benefited from mechanics such as winner-take-all rules.

 

Trump also wined and dined state party leaders at Mar-a-Lago and his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey.

"This team is lean, efficient, experienced, eye on the prize — none of the backstabbing and gossip and drama," Charles Moran, president of the Log Cabin Republicans (the leading group of LGBT conservatives), and a member of the California Republican Party's rules committee, told us. "No divas. It drives [Trump critics] crazy."

Here again, Trump was greatly limited by disorganization and bureaucratic naïveté when he was in the White House. The Heritage Foundation and other groups are spending millions to make sure that doesn't happen again if he wins….

 

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/25/trump-2024-campaign-republican-nominee

Anonymous ID: fb0361 Jan. 28, 2024, 5:38 p.m. No.20321135   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1224 >>1421 >>1562 >>1634

>>20321127

Behind the Curtain: Trump's exponential power surge

2/2

 

  1. In Iowa and New Hampshire, Trump built extensive ground operations that helped cement him as a formidable front-runner in both states almost a year before voting began.

 

The campaign sent the Iowa GOP suggestions for caucus locations, and installed heavy-hitter surrogates across the state to speak on his behalf. Precinct captains in gold-embroidered hats, with a suggested 3-minute speech in hand, were at every precinct.

In New Hampshire, Trump officials — drafting off his background as a hospitality mogul — took a "customer service" approach that rewarded top volunteers with VIP rally tickets, signed Trump hats and even photos with the candidate.

  1. The establishment opposition melted and proved much more amenable to his ways and plans.

 

The once-mighty Reagan-Bush GOP establishment, committed to a muscular foreign policy and unfettered trade, has given way to a Trump Republicanism that's skeptical of large companies and institutions, hawkish on trade and modest in foreign policy.

Nearly every person of consequence at the federal and state levels fell in line by New Hampshire. Even those who'd been ridiculed by Trump stood on stage with wide smiles.

Trump has long benefited from the dynamic that people either want his endorsement or want to avoid his taunts and wrath. Now, many of the party's up-and-comers also want to be his VP. Much of the party's younger talent has been campaigning for him in New Hampshire. And three of his former rivals appeared with him Monday night at his closing Granite State rally.

The shackles imposed on Trump in Term 1 are gone, especially in Congress.

  1. Trump, who had flown solo his entire political life, allowed his allies to embrace the Heritage Foundation and other outside groups that are building talent banks and policy blueprints to help him swiftly staff the government to control and shrink what Trumpers call "the deep state."

 

Heritage's Project 2025 is prescreening thousands of potential administration appointees as part of a pre-transition effort that far exceeds what has ever been done for a party nominee, let alone a primary candidate.

Heritage president Kevin Roberts recently told The New York Times that he sees the think tank's role as "institutionalizing Trumpism."

Like his campaign, Trump would come into a second term with a much bigger — and more loyal and ready — governing army.

  1. Maybe the biggest shocker: Trump took indictments on 91 felonies in four criminal cases — a death knell for any other candidate — and turned them into a net positive. Even many traditional Republicans see the prosecutions as piling on.

 

"I've been indicted more than Al Capone," Trump crowed at his final New Hampshire rally.

What's next: Trump will amp up his attacks on his prospective general-election opponent — President Biden — while still working to clinch the Republican nomination, likely in March. It's yet another way that Trump 2024 is way ahead of the usual campaign game.

 

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/25/trump-2024-campaign-republican-nominee