Indeed, you don’t have to look hard to see the political appeal of anti-feminism in many parts of the world. A host of illiberal governments have rooted a kind of anti-feminism at the core of their nationalist platforms. In Poland, a right-wing nationalist government has pushed a controversial abortion law, carried out raids on certain women’s rights groups and moved to strip funding from them on the grounds that they discriminated against men — because they only support female survivors of domestic violence. In the Philippines, brash President Rodrigo Duterte — the recipient of repeated praise from Trump — has crafted his political image through years of jocular machismo, including unseemly rape jokes.

In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has shepherded his own nationalist project with appeals to a mystical idea of womanhood. “Our religion [Islam] has defined a position for women: motherhood,” Erdogan said in 2014, in a speech where he insisted women could not be placed on an “equal footing” with men. “Some people can understand this, while others can’t. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don’t accept the concept of motherhood.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has propagated a nationalism cloaked in traditional, Christian values. Analysts point to a resolutely anti-feminist set of female lieutenants appointed in various positions by Putin, who play a crucial role in furthering a conservative, religious agenda. “Putin’s anti-feminists champion repressive, controversial laws and practices,” wrote Ekaterina Sokirianskaia of the International Crisis Group last year. “These include: restrictions on rallies and demonstrations; the ‘foreign agents’ law that paralyzed and stigmatized NGOs with foreign funding; curbs on civic freedoms and intellectual debates; and support for the state’s intervention in citizens’ privacy.”