When Both Parties Try to Out-Macho Each Other

The style comes from Donald Trump, who is actually a very accomplished insult comic, right? Because he is camp and heel turn-ish and as well as being a bully, he can obviously very charming.

I'd say that Steven Miller has only really got one of those qualities.

But you're right, the vocabulary is new.

The sentiments are pretty old.

But essentially, this idea of, of being low T is something that is absolutely currency in the, the manosphere.

And to the extent that lots of manosphere podcasters and influencers will talk quite openly about how they're on TRT, the male version of HRT, testosterone replacement therapy, because it's situated as being this idea that, that we're living in this male crisis of masculinity, where men are becoming less manly.

And actually, that's all to do with...

The elevated way of saying it is the Greek word thumos, thumos, which is the kind of this life force.

But the kind of translation of that is testosterone, and that's, uh, an, a theory that's advanced, this theory of hormonal politics in the book by Charles Cornish Dale, also known as Raw Egg Nationalist, who I wrote about in my cover story.

So his book is all about the fact that men are more suited for politics because they are high T and, and women aren't.

And liberal democracy is also kind of feminine too because it's all about equality and safeguarding individual rights rather than being about the strong and the winners take all.

So it's, that ties in with another thing that is, is criticized, which is the, the idea of empathy.

Mm-hmm.

And it is a big deal all across the masculinist internet that empathy is a kind of modern plague.

It's what happens when you have too many women in positions of power.

So Doug Wilson, the Christian nationalist pastor who I interviewed, he, he has a, uh, an episode of his podcast Man Rampant, which is called The Sin of Empathy.

Um, Gad Saad, the Canadian marketing professor, has a book about suicidal empathy.

You hear a lot about, around the time of the Minnesota shootings, about toxic empathy.

And this idea is that, um, you know, women and liberals, and those are two groups that are seen to overlap enormously in this kind of, uh, ideology, they have too much empathy for what is seen as the underdog, but isn't actually, is actually a sort of snake in the grass.

So that would be violent criminals.

That would be illegal immigrants.

That would be people who really need to kind of be kept in their place and instead are in- indulged essentially by women and liberals.

Mm-hmm.

So this is actually a genuine debate about the nature of Christianity.

Like, what do we know about Talarico's brand of Christianity? It's the opposite of this, or the idea-