The whole attempt to code oneself as masculine by going further to the right is not foolproof. It is actually easier to go further and further to the right if one already has money and power. This kind of 'going right' has rhetorical power, but since it is designed to maintain, rather than challenge the status quo, it is basically passive.
Necessarily, any active force that challenges right wing propositions and which comes from below, from the position of underdog, is automatically going to be more active, more vital (indeed, according to the metaphysical binaries of symbolic coding) and therefore more "masculine" than passive wingnuttiness can ever be.
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