…part of Trump’s love of fossil fuels – and his accompanying hostility to climate change mitigation, green initiatives, and nature conservation – might be less transactional than libidinal. Because to him, part of the appeal of climate-destroying, future-inhibiting, polluting energy industries is not merely that their executives are writing him checks. It’s that he sees these industries, and these forms of energy consumption, as more manly.
It’s basically like horseshoe-theory, but for sexuality.
The most hardcore, hyper-machismo homophobes are just so deep in the closet they are coming out in the next room.