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Anyone who's reasonably psychologically minded and has watched macho MAGA males like Hegseth has figured this out already, but research confirms that "extreme demonstrations of masculinity" are driven by a need to overcompensate: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/668417. We're all suffering for their insecurity.

Other studies have shown that fragile masculinity correlates with voting for Trump (& for other Reps in '18) (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-justice-pacifists/202107/why-do-some-men-support-aggressive-policies-and-politicians), and w/ the # of evangelicals in a state (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jssr.12717).