I don't know if the performative submission is really the explanation - I've noticed this a long time and honestly just decided these people have no taste and have decided their value is entirely the superficiality that is Trump's sole feature - but I'm really glad someone at least is talking about this.


It's disturbing and weird when every Republican politician, wife, influencer looks like they're suffering from body dysmorphia.

I think it's much more primeval than that.

"Beautiful people are morally righteous."

"Wealth and power are a sign of hard work, and moral integrity"

I don't think most people would agree with those statements outright, but there's certainly a deeply ingrained bias that supports those connections.

And when you want to rob people blind and fake it till you make it and lead from a position of complete amorality, you have to lean in to those biases.

Ever read Grimm's Fairy Tales? In almost every story, the hero is handsome and the villain is ugly.