October 27, 2024

Has Trump's crude phallocentric politics led to evangelicals abandoning him? By Hal M. Brown, MSW

Who would ever have thought that the size of Arnold Palmer's penis would come up in a presidential election? Most adults, even none golfers, know that Arnold Palmer was one of the world's greatest golfers and even know that a drink which is still popular was named for him.  It is shown above in the long glass which it is generally served in.

From here I make the leap into Trump and Jesus and then to Trump and phallic symbols:
 



Voters who saw nothing tawdry, let alone sacrilegious, about images of Trump and Jesus shown above and didn't find it off-putting that Trump would sell electonic trading cards like the decidely phallic one may be rethinking voting for him. Consider this article:


The article begins:

Donald Trump’s “Believers and Ballots Faith Town Hall” in Zebulon, Georgia, on Wednesday was very short on words about believers, ballots or faith. In the closing days of past campaigns, the Republican Party and its Christian right allies made strong appeals to these voters to get out to the polls in huge numbers to save “Christian” America and “biblical” values. On Wednesday, though, Trump’s perfunctory appearance at Christ Chapel Church in the battleground state punted on an opportunity to make such a plea inside a church. The abbreviated, uncomfortable charade showed how Trump, in his third presidential run, has dispensed with the GOP’s farcical claim to being the party of religious Americans, relying instead on his status as a messiah figure to mobilize his loyal base of white evangelical voters. 

One of the town hall participants asked Trump about a survey released earlier this month by the evangelical pollster George Barna and Arizona Christian University, claiming that 32 million regular churchgoers may not vote this November (this is not the first time Barna has made such dire pronouncements, including in 2016, when Trump won). Asked to “share a final message to those Christians to encourage them to go to the polls,” Trump could not even bring himself to offer such a message. He did not acknowledge or thank the voters who helped propel him to the White House eight years ago and stood by him throughout his scandalous presidency and insurrection. Instead, he said, “Christians are not tremendous voters,” and then rambled for nearly three minutes on themes of religious persecution by “not nice” and “stupid” people, guns and COVID restrictions, without completing coherent sentences or thoughts.

The article goes on to describe how Trump and his "embrace of a new evangelical leader, far-right campus troll and election denier Charlie Kirk may have worked against him." Kirk claimed Democrats “stand for everything God hates” and called the election “a spiritual battle.”

If these evangelical voters are paying attention at all they should be realizing that Trump is a sleazy lowlife liar who will pander for votes in any way that he can from courting the phallocentric (look it up here) "bros" who are fans of the Joe Rogan show to using language to attack his enemies that, if their kids used words like that, they'd be taken to task.



The article, which I find an extraordinary example of how 
unprecedentedly bizarre this campaign has become, begins:

In all fairness, the latest installment of our phallocentric presidential politics began with Barack Obama’s taunt of Donald Trump’s fragile manhood at the Democratic National Convention last summer.

With one deft move, Obama combined a humorous observation about Trump’s preoccupation with the size of his rallies with hand gestures the raucous crowd interpreted as a reference to the former president’s brag about his penis size during the 2016 Republican primary.

In an exchange with then rival Sen. Marco Rubio, Trump denied that the size of his hands bespoke any sexual inadequacy on his part. “Look at those hands, are they small hands?” Trump said to a stunned, but thoroughly titillated nation watching the debate on television. “And he referred to my hands — ‘if they’re small, something else must be small.’ I guarantee you, there’s no problem. I guarantee.”

It was a puerile insult that a bigger man — and certainly every woman — would’ve ignored as too stupid and self-demeaning to engage, but not Trump. 

The GOP frontrunner was more than willing to become the first presidential candidate in history who was insecure enough to assure voters he possessed enough ‘big penis energy’ to lead America into whatever post-coital future it could imagine.


Pehraps the accusations coming from no fewer that 23 women about how Trump sexually assaulted them is starting to lead them to believe that there's no way all of them could be making this up. Maybe they are wondering about why Trump would want to hang out with Jeffrey Epstein.


I see the preening narcisstic (read yesterday's blog about that term) phallocentric Trump having his deepest insecurities being triggered by the fact that he is running against a self-confident and accomplished woman who also happens to be physically attractive, one who clearly doesn't see him as the hunk, the hunk of burning love he fancies himself to be.

Sorry Trump, you never were and never will be Elvis.

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