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We were very amused by Bret, being gay, that he had picked up on what was very gay in macho culture.

As O’Toole also observes, Trump’s anti-European animus has a potent psychosexual subtext, simultaneously rooted in right-wing American macho posturing and his own infantile sense of narcissistic injury.

There are some insights into his family — his macho father is an “Indiana Jones . . . with chutzpah,” who was very supportive of Paul and his endeavors.

Yet for years first responders leaned into the macho stereotypes surrounding their jobs and refused to acknowledge the mental toll those jobs were taking.

But the idea that the show’s blandly macho host would become one of the most influential figures in American life would have seemed as ridiculous as, well, Donald Trump getting elected president.