Hypermasculine Trumpism & Politainment

My guest has correctly projected the winner of more than two decades of presidential elections.

Photo of the Cleaver family from the television program Leave it to Beaver. From left: Hugh Beaumont (Ward), Tony Dow (Wally), Barbara Billingsley (June), Jerry Mathers (Theodore AKA “Beaver”). ⁠Public Domain⁠, available on ⁠Wikimedia⁠. According to historian John Fea, many Trump followers find common ground with others who seek refuge from change by urging a return to a utopian Leave it to Beaver version of America that never actually existed.

Did you know, that the 10 richest men in America are worth more than the bottom 45% of Americans? This will likely make economic inequality one of the most important, if not the most important, issues in this year’s presidential election.

The News:

We are now in an election year that follows a historically chaotic year for the US Congress.

History Behind News:

If Mr. Trump does become the candidate for the Republican Party for the 2024 presidential election, then we will essentially have a repeat of the 1892 election with some differences.

For starters, the stark similarity is that a former president will run against a sitting president in a rematch of the immediate prior election.

In 1888, President Grover Cleveland lost to Benjamin Harrison, a Republican. Cleveland was the only Democratic president in the long stretch from James Buchanan (1857–61) to Woodrow Wilson (1913–21). The 1892 presidential election was a rematch — former President Cleveland ran against the sitting President, Harrison. This would be like former President Trump running against President Biden in 2024.