Populism is a primal scream for primordial masculinity. It’s a call for action over thought, individualism over cooperation. It’s uncontrolled emotion: fighting, insulting, bragging, sleeping around, and bragging about the attractiveness of your wife even though you’re also sleeping around. It’s everything the eggheads in salmon pants are not. Scott told me that the Democratic Party is symbolically female and committed to finding fairness. Republicans are metaphorically male and understand that fairness is both impossible and disincentivizing, so instead of justice they aim for power.
