Food for thought. A lot of time and energy has been spent faux flexing these past several weeks by middle-aged and older white men, including unfortunately those who occupy the highest offices of our federal government's Executive Branch. I have known forever that real men don't eat quiche but they don't wear masks in public during a pandemic? Color me stunned. I had no idea. It turns out that not only are the world's best scientists a bunch of nerds but they are pansy-asses too. Boy that explains a lot, right?
When I was a boy, my father taught me that a man stands up. He stands up for what is right, regardless of whether doing so is popular. He stands up and owns his own errors, because personal responsibility is paramount. How can you trust a person to take responsibility for anything when he will not take responsibility for his own actions? Rhetorical question, slick.
I neither know nor have met Tom Nichols. Yet, I find his assessment of DJT's character to be startlingly on-point. Illuminating as well, I have struggled for three-plus years trying to decide to whom DJT's leadership style seems the closest.
-AK
The line that stopped me in my tracks: "Some of these traditional masculine virtues have a dark side: Toughness and dominance become bullying and abuse; self-reliance becomes isolation; silence becomes internalized rage."
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