This is due to decades of (e)masculinization of politics. The Republicans have used the 2nd Amend (guns), Libertarianism, Foreign policy (war), etc, to masculinize conservatism,...while simultaneously emasculating empathy, compassion, principled morality, intellectualism, etc. 1/ https://twitter.com/airbagmoments/status/1225082256689172481
A thread analyzing how Trump attempts to emasculate Adam Schiff’s principled, moral, ethical, intelligence through attack’s on his physical appearance: 2/ https://twitter.com/Nick_Carmody/status/1208024455605182464
…..A thread on the emasculation of equality: 3/ https://twitter.com/Nick_Carmody/status/1125016593983926272
A thread that highlight the emasculation through the gun issue: 4/ https://twitter.com/Nick_Carmody/status/1170340089546903552
Thread on Jeanne Pirro emasculation of rule of law Democrats as weasels, wimps, and wussies: 5/ https://twitter.com/Nick_Carmody/status/1191862352733450242
The movement to emasculate “compromise”, which fuels polarization/tribalization: 6/ https://twitter.com/Nick_Carmody/status/1213571382610558976
Which has resulted in the “paternal-ization” and "maternal-ization" of the national political parties,…. 7/ https://twitter.com/Nick_Carmody/status/1129002027453804544
….which only fuels the emotion, and in many cases triggers previous family trauma, in millions of Americans: 8/ https://twitter.com/Nick_Carmody/status/1105795583636168705
A thread touching on the "masculine", "tough" undertone of Libertarianism: 9/ https://twitter.com/Nick_Carmody/status/1205853156682240000
....and the masculinization of Covid denial, which results in the emasculinization of belief in, respect for, and prudent prevention of......Covid: 11/ https://twitter.com/Nick_Carmody/status/1258011447784697858