Trump’s strongman act was bad enough. Now other Republicans are taking it literally, Zeeshan Aleem writes.
) and on his authoritarian style of will-to-power politics. At every level, the idea is that strength should prevail.
Trump has typified and popularized this retrograde emphasis on masculine strength, but that isn’t to suggest that he has been the only source of it. MSNBC columnist Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a scholar of right-wing extremism at American University,about how far-right extremists have used fitness chat groups and mixed martial arts gyms as recruitment pools.
Physical fitness training, especially in combat sports, appeals to the far right for many reasons: fighters are trained to accept significant physical pain, to be “warriors,” and to embrace messaging around solidarity, heroism, and brotherhood. It’s championed as a tool to help fight the “coming race war” and the street battles that will precede it.
The argument here isn’t that enjoying fitness or combat sports makes someone right-wing, but rather that extremists view these spaces as opportunities to find people partial to an ideology that emphasizes the meaning of strength and force.
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