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MAGA manosphere testosterone and egg inflation crush identity politics

Lester Golden
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Political elections have often been described as a dominance competition, in which political foes establish a social hierarchy with a winner on top and a loser on the bottom. When male mammals — and that includes us humans — win a dominance contest, their testosterone levels tend to rise or remain stable; when they lose, their testosterone levels fall.

The Democrats abandoned the essential worker class for the laptop working creative class’s multicultural identity politics and thought their old base had no other political home to move to. Their response was….

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and most pronounced among the 70% of Latino men who work in agriculture, food processing, construction and hospitality. The most Hispanic county in the US flipped to red, part of Latino men’s 36% to 55% swing to Trump from 2020 to 2024.

The demographics are destiny idea that Democrats could have their donor class cake while eating their working class base was a Clinton conceit from the naïve world is flat Pollyanna pundit era of globalization. It’s embedded in the realignment cycles that give us alpha and beta presidencies. From political failure parties pivot to product redesign. Democrats’ neoliberal globalization pivot came out of Reagan era…

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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