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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums67% of Millennial Trump Supporters Consider Themselves Alpha Males
http://stories.whatsgoodly.com/index.php/2017/06/06/1-personality-trait-shared-millennial-trump-supporters/by Alex Attallah
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The web preview of our alpha male poll, with 1,313 votes as of this writing. Contribute your own vote here.
We noticed this poll back in March: Do you consider yourself an alpha male? An alpha male assumes a dominant role in social or professional situations, and Trumps team consistently touted his alpha personality as a key strength. Vice President Mike Pence used to routinely explain that Americans should back Trump because we need broad-shouldered leadership, which some interpreted as a sexist dig at Hillary Clinton.
But why, exactly, do Trumps supporters crave an alpha-male personality in the white house? We asked male American millennials if they considered themselves to be alpha, and found a possible explanation in the results. Male Trump supporters are a whopping 21% more likely to consider themselves alpha males than their pro-Clinton equivalents, marking the most significant personality difference to date in our two-year-old database of 150 million responses [2]:
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This data could explain why two-thirds of Trump supporters believe that society has become too soft and feminine, while 78% of Clinton supporters dont. Alpha males may seek broad-shouldered leadership that reminds them of themselves.
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Matthew28
(1,798 posts)They use violence to get their way through life.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Thus Trump's self-image of a successful businessman does not equate with the reality of his career.
applegrove
(118,696 posts)hatrack
(59,587 posts)applegrove
(118,696 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)Over a dozen different factions vying for dominance. It's why we were staying out. Trump seems determined to get us in there, deep.
Coventina
(27,121 posts)I hesitate to say anything more.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,357 posts)NotaRobot
(6 posts)The Alpha Males, like Eric and Don Jr, are just the sort of insanely crazy stupid frat boys that drove me crazy in college.
mhw
(678 posts)Still way to many supremacists.
wryter2000
(46,051 posts)They're alpha male wannabes
procon
(15,805 posts)Alphas? Oh girlfriend, those folks are so far down the alphabetical hierarchy that they are more known for their belly-up, wee-wee position.
Oneironaut
(5,504 posts)We see these types all of the time. They go out of their way to be assholes, because that's being a "real man." Don't hold doors open, scream in peoples' faces, abuse your waiter, waitress, or anyone who is unlikely to have the power to respond, obnoxiously yell sexist jokes to your equally douchey friends to show how "alpha" you are. Treat women like non-human sex vending machines, and brag about it to your friends.
These men are all mentally abused. They've had this crap forced into their minds because they've been told that they're useless otherwise. It's sad.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)Fucking pathetic.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)Who voted for a reality tv daddy to protect them from all the scary brown people and all the gay
Me.
(35,454 posts)Whiny little complainers who dislike women
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)misogynists.
JHB
(37,161 posts)Butch: "Hear dat, Woim? Yer an 'alpha male'. Like Alfalfa, without the Fal! Haha!"
Woim: (scowls, but still follows Butch everywhere) "Good one, Butch!"
Codeine
(25,586 posts)doesn't really make one an alpha male, you silly dipshits.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)There are a few here.
So far from alpha...omg.
Aristus
(66,388 posts)white supramacist group here in Washington State. The nominal leader of the group kept referring to his home as 'Alpha Base'.
It's sounds like the pretentious compensating factor one might use if one had a fascination with the military without having the stones to serve. It is, as they say, to laugh...
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)Besides malignantly misogynistic & narcissistic.
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ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)and slapping testosterone gel on your beer gut does not make you an alpha male. It makes you sad! Pathetic! losers!
MountCleaners
(1,148 posts)The guy I know who is really actively pro-Trump - a member of Bikers for Trump - mansplains a lot and condescends. The thing is, he's not very bright and just isn't aware of how ignorant he is. He just hangs with his bike and gun posse and they certainly won't challenge his self-image.