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Trump Is the Everyman Who Hates the People Who Adore Him
The ‘high school, no-college’ cohort has been empowered, meaning facts and reason no longer matter.
Don’t get me wrong; not all World Wrestling Federation (WWF) fans are MAGA. There is probably a handful of former Trump supporters who have seen the light and now accept that the WWF was garbage that should have offended them as humans had they been paying attention.
The problem with the WWF (which later became the WWE) is that many fanatics who watched countless hours of the brain-less “fights” didn’t understand that what they viewed was 100% fake. The bravado, the fantastic threats, and the over-the-top exaggeration of masculinity stimulated legions of boys and men, resulting in Saturday afternoon brawls in the den before the TV and streets at Halloween filled with WWF superstar costumes. How many Hulk Hogans, Rocks, Stone Cold Steve Austins, or Ric Flairs stalked the streets of Everytown, USA?
When many of these boys grew up, they found something lacking in their lives. The wacky, toxic maleness they viewed for hours left them feeling hollow and adrift. Modern life emptied them, and if they tried to act out even in the smallest ways that resembled the wild, fake world of WWF, society told them to grow up. Society told them to be…
