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Biden, Trump, and the battle for the soul of masculinity

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May 20, 2024
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This weekend, in his commencement address at Morehouse College, President Biden made unusually pointed remarks about the pseudo-masculinity peddled by Donald Trump and other purveyors of American fascism:

They peddle a fiction, a caricature what being a man is about — tough talk, abusing power, bigotry.  Their idea of being a man is toxic…

But that’s not …

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