Trump is in many other ways a caricature of a man’s man. He shouts and bullies and berates people. He speaks mostly in superlatives and mentions himself in most sentences. He plays golf and has a head full of hair, as men are supposed to. He hasn’t gone full Putin and hunted shirtless on horseback with his press pool, but he has alluded to the size of his penis from the stage of a presidential primary debate.

To fall for Trump is to be seduced by a man who has demonstrated a propensity to fill the major cities of the world with enormous phalluses bearing his name. A man who refuses to apologize to the Khan family, even after enormous fallout and condemnation from his own party. A man who defines himself through procurement of a “young and beautiful piece of ass.”…

Trump is so successful because of the way he does it. His signature traits, confidence and bravado, are hallmarks of masculinity. They convince people that he’s correct, that he’s in control and trustworthy, even when his words are false or misleading.