A decade ago, three weeks from an election that, apart from packing Barack Obama’s first term priorities in ice, would show Democrats the peril of ignoring local and state races, a relative and I got into about, what else, the president’s socialist tendencies. Obama wasn’t socialist, he assured me; he was a, right, fellow-traveler. Why else did he appoint all those czars?! Hillary Clinton, I learned, would’ve known how to handle legislation. Hillary had balls. My relative, in case I needed an illustration, curled the forefinger and thumb of each hand and dangled them below his crotch.
I grew up enduring this shit. My hand got slapped if its wrist ever showed tendencies to think for itself, like that. In “The Macho Appeal of Donald Trump”, we learn nearly 30 percent of Hispanic voters who say they support him do so in part because he projects masculine energy, the New York Times reports. These voters want the bluster.
Other attendees at the event with Mr. Cejudo and Eric Trump spoke of watching Mr. Trump on “The Apprentice,” saying they liked his strong style, his apparent confidence in his own opinions. In interviews, they said they viewed his actions as president much in the same way: Even those they do not wholeheartedly agree with, they see as further evidence of his strength.
They said they saw his defiance of widely accepted medical guidance in the face of his own illness not as a sign of poor leadership, but one of a man who does his own research to reach his own conclusion. They see his disdain for masks as an example of his toughness, his incessant interruptions during the debate with Mr. Biden as an effective use of his power.
“We saw him being a boss,” said Edwin Gonzales, 31, who held a large American flag outside the Trump campaign office. “And for him to go down the escalator is basically the same thing — it’s like, ‘Dang, the boss has stepped down and he’s putting himself out there to be the president.’ That’s what’s exciting.”
I’ve explained — insisted on — the danger of regarding “Hispanic” or “Latino” as a bloc. But the kind of garbage I hear casually in checkout lanes and the sheer plenitude of the MAGA paraphernalia adduces the Trumpist’s grotesque gender politics. Some of those overhead comments? Women made them.
There’s a bit from an Ann Beattie story called “The Burning House” to which I’ve returned: “I’m going to tell you something about men. Men think they’re Spider-Man and Buck Rogers and Superman. You know what we all feel inside that you don’t feel? That we’re going to the stars.” The speaker? A man.
Humanizing The Vacuum 
“Hispanics” has left machismo back as a descriptive long time ago. I said this having spent a good portion of 2012 in Mexico visiting a sibling; the most machist of hispanic countries both in culture and law-making against custody (my sibling, a divorced woman could tell you about it) As if sexism was propiety of non-white people, I’ve also heard during the Hillary campaign she was “too dick” from white female, non-hispanic people. Dump people knows no genre.
Trump is beyond those categories. He is, as we say here, “impresentable”. We have a vice-president here, female and vocal about that, who is not better than him. She, like Trump, should be in jail for starters. Let’s concentrate on that.