It doesn’t require an astute observer of Donald J. Trump to come to the conclusion that he is an alpha male – replete with all the hubris, bravado, braggadocio and abrasiveness that comes with such a disposition.
But if you haven’t noticed, that’s why he was voted to be the Republican nominee.
Voters on the right are fatigued with wimpy, tired, intellectual candidates that only offer careful, rehearsed, polished rebuttals to their liberal opponents with requisite restraint and neutered confidence.
It’s why Romney couldn’t get it done and “go there” on Benghazi and Jeremiah Wright.
And its the difference between traditional politicians and the Trumpster.
Trump scoured the stage with a simmering mojo at Sunday night’s debate. He had a chip on his shoulder, a fire in his belly and a necessary disregard for the constraints that weakened Romney and McCain in past debates.
Watching him, I wasn’t sure if he was in a debate, a boxing match, or auditioning to unseat Axle Rose as AC/DC’s new front man. His swagger was visceral.
Trump unapologetically went after Hillary with substance, humor and an appropriate domineering cadence that was fully merited by the severity of her deficiencies.
All this from the springboard of Donald tackling his own enormous deficiency at the onset of the debate – his extreme, inexcusable vulgarity that he brushed away as locker room talk.
Call it what you will – and I’ll call it what I will – it’s barroom talk, it’s water cooler talk, it’s cigar lounge talk, it’s private cell phone talk, it’s girls’ night out talk, and it’s fodder for most of today’s Hollywood scripts.
Have you watched the TV show “Shameless” on Showtime?
This is the template for the liberals’ ideal family structure and the code for their sexual morality re-boot. The episode that aired the night of the debate showcased the celebration of bisexual polygamy, heralded the merits of casual Tinder-sex and urged the prescription of watching Ted Cruz on C-SPAN as a means to facilitate post-op teenage circumcision erection suppression.
And you think the liberal left and their Hollywood cohorts really give an aeronautical fornication about Donald Trump’s grotesque sex banter with pseudo wingman Billy Bush?
Hogwash! They paved the way for the normalcy of such talk!
Was the Donald’s behavior despicable?
Of course, but hardly indicative of an isolated character flaw resting solely with billionaire real estate moguls.
Engaging in boastful aggressive sex talk is a common tendency with alpha males.
This doesn’t make it right, but it does make it predictable.
I don’t much hang out in locker rooms, but I’ve been around a lot of successful entrepreneurs, millionaires and unbridled hustlers – in business settings and social settings. Their struggle to separate the aggression of their sex drive from the aggression of their work drive is immensely perceivable.
I know that many alpha males of this caliber have successfully conquered the demon of their sexual appetites. But I sense it is rarer than most think and that, contrarily, the old adage of “great men, great appetites” unfortunately more often holds true.
Anyone who understands this dynamic is not surprised or personally offended by the “Access Hollywood” Trump audio.
For the Trumpsters, it was grafted into their decision to support Trump long before. In the mind’s of many, the unique value he brings to the table as a fighter and a raw, authentic anti-politician far outweighs the expected baggage he carries as a high-strung celebrity alpha male.
It reminds me of when Mitt Romney publicly accepted Kid Rock’s endorsement in 2012, even though early Kid Rock recordings are akin to setting Trump and Billy Bush’s vulgar comments to music.
Imagine Mitt Romney singing along to Kid Rock’s song “Cocky.”
Fat chance, right? Right.
But he gladly took the endorsement anyway.
Romney knew that, like Trump, Kid Rock’s very publicly documented past was riddled with extreme sexual vulgarity. He also knew that Kid Rock’s public life was alternately punctuated with very real inflections of earnest growth and efforts to move away from the personality he embodied in the past. This is evident in lyrics from the song “Jesus and Bocephus,” a song detailing Kid Rock’s faith transition and friendship with Hank Williams Jr. (Bocephus), who has helped disciple Kid Rock.
Similarly, this understanding is why we see so many continue to stand by Trump.
Some leaders who carry immense reputational risk on their shoulders – like Dr. James Dobson – have, like Hank Williams Jr. with Kid Rock, taken a grace-filled shepherding approach to Mr. Trump.
Because the real, consequential, greater vulgarity that we all need to focus on is not verbal.
It is the physical, ideological and financial vulgarity that stains Hillary Clinton’s clear connections to allowing the advancement of the murderous savagery of ISIS and the systemic ideological infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood’s civilization jihad.
The Saudis are funding both ISIS and 20 percent of Hillary’s presidential race.
This is the greater vulgarity. This is the consequential vulgarity.
This is the vulgarity that funds, perpetuates and quietly validates honor killings, jihad, sexual slavery, the murdering of homosexuals, routine beheadings and female genital mutilation.
This is Hillary’s vulgarity.
The real vulgarity that threatens us all.
This is where Trump needs to focus.
This is where WE need to focus.
