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Karoline Leavitt And MAGA’s Horny White Male Rage
Personally, I don’t find Karoline Leavitt — the newly-minted 27 year-old press secretary for Donald Trump’s second term — to be attractive, but I do need to concede that she’s:
- Blond
- Young
- Loves God
- Loves guns
So while it’s not my personal thing, I realize millions of guys are into her. And I think that brings up a point that is either interesting or utter midwit. You can decide.
We know, empirically, that there is a rise in what I’d call “white male rage” in America. This takes many forms, notably economic (loss of jobs), but also aimed at the court system (women get half), the dating world (only Chad and Tyrone get to lay pipe), celebrities (“Taylor Swift doesn’t get to decide my President”), liberals (purple-haired baristas), and more. I would say there is rage among liberal males too, although honestly at this moment, it’s hard to find a self-professed liberal male. A lot of the boys went MAGA last time out. I do know of the existence of young men who scream on TikTok about Trump, and then Ben Shapiro clips it and makes fun of it, and ironically that screaming liberal gets attention and some monetization from being mocked, but a lot of…