Time for Men to be Men: Protect Our Daughters from Trumpanistas
Trump leads among white men by a large margin, but this is based on two things: a blanket of misinformation about Trump and a failure of my fellow white men to step up and be men.

Conservative columnist, Michael Gerson, argues that Trump's huge lead among white men (and even more so among less educated white men) suggests "a movement of white grievance led by an avatar" whose "version of Eden is lounging at the Grotto at the Playboy Mansion," a vision "left behind along with adolescence" for most...but not Trump.

Take a moment to let this image from Matt Wuerker sink in.

A moment...

Here are ten reasons any white man worth his salt could never vote for Trump.

1. We do not want our sons to have Trump as a role model. He is an example of how not to be a real man.

2. Trump is that rich SOB who stiffs his contractors, cheats on his wives, loudly exaggerates his dick size, rates our daughters by their breast size, and laughs about it with his rich SOB pals in the sauna.

3. Trump's record of success as a businessman is BS. His business model is to inherit millions from his father and use it to screw you and I out of what we earned actually working for a living.

4. We do not want our daughters to grow up in an America where the men in their lives grew up with Trump as their role model. These Trumpanistas will make our daughters lives even harder and more dangerous.

5. Trump is that douchebag in the locker room who always takes the jokes three steps too far, making real men cringe as we wonder if he would treat our daughters that way.  We know he would.

6. We do not want our young men and women in uniform to put their lives on the line because Trump went ballistic about a tweet from another world leader or has to defend his imaginary dick size.

7. Trump is clearly unstable, untruthful, unprepared to be president, and he consistently doubles-down on this by insisting only he knows more then our generals.

8. When Trump recently announced that President Obama was, indeed, born here, he told us that he has been intentionally lying to us for many years in order to cripple our government.

9. His only allies in his own party are Guiliani, Christie, and Gingrich, so just a glance around the room confirms that this is a collection of SOBs who have no track record of helping the average white guy or his family, ever.

10. We should be angry about the failure of our government leaders to address the problems we face, but Trump is at the core of this failure, he is at the heart of these problems, and the only thing he shares with us is a loud and angry voice. Otherwise, he is pretty much the captain of Team Screw Average White Guys and has been his entire, born with a silver spoon in his mouth, privileged life.

In this post, I am attempting to speak white man to white man, using the kind of language that animates locker rooms and man caves and gets amplified many times in Trump-talk. It is my hope that any decent man reading this post will not only choose to enthusiastically support HRC as our first female president, but also choose to work hard to persuade others to do the same.

At the same time, this is just one post with one audience in mind seeking one outcome: see the danger in a Trump presidency and act. The larger questions surrounding gender subordination and agency and power also highlighted by Trumpism are not addressed here, but I welcome thoughts on that from others.