Recently I shared a substack post that argued "DOGE is About Sex" #921208 the main premise being how Elon & Trumps economic goals were to make women more economically desperate such that women are more nudged to settle for mediocre and lonely men.
I do not think that tells the whole story about MAGA economics. Neither does the author CHH, I think.
But I think she's onto something. Here are 4 tweets I randomly encountered today that fit this narrative perfectly:
Trump's trade war is partly about gender.
As American manufacturing declined, men lost economic leverage over women. The nationalist right believes that this led to lower marriage and birth rates.
Highly educated women will be completely out of the marriage market in next 5 years.
congratulations to boring men with stable jobs on becoming the next hot commodity
The American economy is built around giving fake unproductive jobs to women, therefore we must destroy it
Conclusion
Interestingly this thought seems to cross many peoples minds independently. Like Calculus was invented by Leibnitz and Newton simultaneous and independently.
It's also liberals and conservatives; men and women uttering these words.
I think this is super fascinating. Shoutout to the original post: https://www.cartoonshateher.com/p/doge-is-about-sex