How Donald Trump appeals to men secretly insecure about...

[_schreech]

...their manhood. I don't think this is any surprise but at least someone did the study - lol. This whole thing just cracks me up.

"The precincts that swung hardest for Trump in 2016 and for the GOP in 2018 also had the highest incidence of Google searches for “erectile dysfunction,” “hair loss,” “how to get girls,” “penis enlargement,” “penis size,” “steroids,” “testosterone” and “Viagra.” '"

"This is new: votes for John McCain and Mitt Romney did not correlate strongly with these searches."



What is it about insecure men and self described "incels" that find Trump appealing? Is it just that he is a repulsive individual who was able to pay for the sex they wish they could have? Do they just admire that he is an unintelligent, unappealing tool who found success (ignoring the fact that he wouldn't be anywhere without his trust fund)? Honestly, I don't get how he became the beacon of hope for insecure men and angry losers. Incel communities seem to fawn over him, what am I missing?

with link to one of the reposts:

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/11/insecure-men-were-a-big-trump-demographic-in-2016/

[_EAllusion]

My first instinct is to attribute this to a swing in older men towards Trump and older men tend to search for those things.

[_Gunnar]

Interesting hypothesis, Schreech! I hadn't thought about it quite that way before, but the more I think about it, the more sense it makes to me. I wonder if Trump himself realized this and was counting on it to secure the vote of such insecure males. Probably not. He is so narcissistic he probably really believes he is irresistible to women, even if not for his riches.