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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Monday, January 27, 2025

Dominance Politics and Gender

 Josh Marshall has a meta-post about readers' favorite posts or themes and one was his formulation of "bitch slap" later "dominance" politics

In this environment of reality TV/professional wrestling politics, where being "alpha" takes primacy, it's going to be exceedingly hard for a female politician to counter that. Again, I'm not saying I endorse the conclusion, but a woman who engages in "dominance" politics is a "bitch" and if she doesn't, she's too weak to be a leader.

Regrettable, but I again think that our first female president will almost have to be a Republican.

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