The Pathetic Weakness of MAGA Men

As I watch men on the Right arguing against the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, I am reminded again how weak they all are, what a pathetic joke MAGA manhood is as an idea.

Despite all their performative Don’t Tread on Me bluster, they are morally impotent in the moments that truly matter.

When the opportunity arrives for them to put their money where their mouths are and make a courageous stand, they’re suddenly struck by performance anxiety.

Given the choice between exposing reprehensible men who have committed unspeakable violence against children and young women, or protecting a guy they voted for and find identity in, they are choosing the latter.

Guys who never shut up about protecting girls from harm immediately fold when called upon to step up and actually advocate for them.

Self-identified alpha males, fully aware that women, not unlike their wives, partners, sisters, and friends were trafficked and assaulted, shrink back into the shadows.

Supposed faithful Christian men, knowing girls just like their daughters and nieces have been brutalized, fall silent, their religious convictions proving powerless.

For all their showy, chest-beating tough-guy bravado, when the rubber meets the road, MAGA men lack the guts to demand that Epstein and his partnering abusers and sexual predators be made accountable, for fear that it will reveal the object of their emotional allegiance is a monster.

And if that were to happen, they’d be faced with a moment of real toughness that they know they aren’t up to.

I hear guys on the Right constantly waving the flag for “real manhood.” I don’t know what the hell that means, and I don’t think they do either. I prefer to aspire to be a decent human being who happens to be male, but hey, I’m just a soy boy, cuck, beta male who believes perverts and predators should be outed and condemned regardless of their political parties.

Here’s what I do know about strong men:
There is nothing strong about turning your head from the trauma of women.
There is nothing strong about falling in line to avoid conflicts with your tribe.
There is nothing strong about being so emotionally tethered to a politician that you would sacrifice survivors of assault on the altar of your adulation.
There is nothing strong about saying nothing when speaking is the right thing.
There is nothing strong about harboring rapists.

The sad irony here is how terrified the quivering coward who professes to lead this nation is: how much he hides behind a phone screen, how he abdicates accountability, the way he runs from reporters, how he uses our military as a shield; his complete inability to stand in the raking light of criticism without withering like a tiny orange flower in the scorching midday sun. He is a man fully lacking humanity, absent of strength, and devoid of decency.

Sadder still is that a generation of American men who've so placed their identity in him that they have lost the ability to criticize him or oppose him, men who cannot stand up for their loved ones or strangers, men who are so enamored with this fraudulent man-child that they will do anything to defend him, even allow criminals to avoid justice.

I’d love to see a massive move of Conservative men stand up and demand that Jeffrey Epstein’s collaborators all be dragged into the light of full accountability, but the bottom line is, they’re just not strong enough.