"Why do working-class white men—the most reliable component of Donald Trump’s base—support someone who is, by their own standards, the least masculine man ever to hold the modern presidency?"

Trump = a "vain, cowardly, lying, vulgar, jabbering blowhard" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/donald-trump-the-most-unmanly-president/612031/
"Researchers who looked back at the 2016 presidential election suggested that support for Trump was higher in areas where there were more internet searches for ... “erectile dysfunction,” “how to get girls,” & “penis enlargement” than in pro-Hillary areas of the country."

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"Is Trump honorable? This is a man who routinely refused to pay working people their due wages, and then lawyered them into the ground when they objected to being exploited. Trump is a rich downtown bully, the sort most working men usually hate."
Is Trump courageous? 

"The fact of the matter is that Trump is an obvious coward. He has two particular phobias: powerful men and intelligent women."
"When Trump talks too much, he ends up saying things that more stereotypically masculine men wouldn’t, like that he fell in love w North Korea’s Kim Jong Un."

“He wrote me beautiful letters, and they’re great letters ... We fell in love.”

If President Obama had said that?
Support for Trump was higher in areas that had more searches for “erectile dysfunction.” This relationship persisted after accounting for demographic attributes in media markets, such as education levels & racial composition, as well as searches for topics unrelated
Precarious manhood
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