If you're really trying to psychoanalyze the relationship between millions of Americans and a complicated subject like masculinity, that approach is about as representative as augury. Maybe people searching for "Viagra" are just, you know, old? Voters 65 and over swung for Trump, and while I'm sure that their views on masculinity could stand to be modernized, searches for "testosterone" probably say more about someone's health concerns than their foreign policy stance. The Post did mention the limitations of their study ... at the very end, after you'd already skimmed the first paragraph and posted to Facebook alongside a joke about how Trump voters can't get it up.
Any headline that claims to have unearthed the deep-seated psychological roots of Trump support via a poll is by nature bullshit. If an expert wants to uncover immature emotional patterns or innate submission to authority figures in a population, they'd need to actually go in-depth with those individuals, one on one, over time. That is, if the goal was to actually study them and not just toss out spiteful red meat for people eager to see them put in their place. But that brings us to how ...
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