Source: Liberal Currents
by Alan Elrod
“I’ve written in the past about how Hegseth’s vision of the American military is preoccupied with an ideal of the male form — one that’s a kind of modern mishmash of Spartan imagery and homoerotic fascist machismo. But that is only one facet of the Trumpian right’s fixation on the body. Another example is the now well-known phenomenon of Mar-A-Lago Face, wherein the women of the right doctor their appearances with filler, cosmetic surgeries, and absurd excesses of makeup. My colleague Samantha Hancox-Li has astutely observed that the prevalence of steroid use and plastic surgery on the right constitutes its own form of gender-affirming care in an era of reactionary fantasies. What matters here to me is that the body is the primary subject of Trumpian politics.” (03/05/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/pervert-politics-trumpisms-body-obsessions/