The Trump cult’s wholesale assault on women that has been an ongoing feature of America’s turbulent domestic life since the overturning of Roe Vs. Wade in 2022 has as its objective a falsely-perceived national security need to increase the birth rate.

This can be concluded from the April 6 Washington Post article by Kelsey Ables under the headline, “Governments Want More Babies. Are Reproductive Freedoms At Risk?” and more, especially from sources related to the “manosphere” male reboot movement.

In keeping with Trump’s angry passion for turning the world back to pre-FDR days, replete with its Smoot-Hawley tariffs and other triggers for the Great Depression, elements of his cult are obsessed with growing enough foot soldiers for the next great war, or wars. 

Many Trumpists, including Elon Musk and Vice President Vance, have openly linked limiting abortion access to a need, in their minds, to increase births.

To go along with this theme, they are touting what columnist Rotimi Adeoye calls “a kind of MAGA Maoism, remixed for the algorithm age.” That involves, in Chinese Cultural Revolution fashion, he observes, “a glorification of physical labor as moral purification” involving “strong men doing hard things.” He notes an online “industry of memes and male micro-celebrities fetishizing rural life, manual labor and a kind of fake rugged masculinity.”

No better expression of this than comes from one such extremist Trumper micro-something, Vish Burra, who expounds online, “Men in America don’t need therapy. Men in America need tariffs and DOGE. The fake email jobs will disappear. Competing with women like this for real jobs will be over. Kitchens will be filled and sandwiches will be made. Fertility rates will go to the moon.”

Ah yes, real men will put women back into the kitchen, so that fertility rates boom. And those real men and their babies when they grow up will be marched out to battlefields to be slaughtered so that Trump and his ilk can continue bankrupting economies and lording over human misery.

This is one ugly component of the pre-FDR world that Trumpists think they can recover through a fascist revival. They love those Great War death rates, and subsequent Spanish influenza pandemic death rates that followed them.

While they fantasize introducing another surge of babies to thrust into war, they forget that it was the horrors of World War I that sped the ratification in 1920 of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote in the U.S. for the first time. That was because it was men who drove the world into that heinous conflagration, and it was hoped that women might not be so eager to let that happen.

It’s taken a long time for the eons-long grip of male dominion in our world to be loosed. But it is there, in the most direct, intimate relations among us, that the future of our culture, the world and the planet, must be played out.

This explains why all the Trumpists’ fixations over gender roles and over anyone not disposed to missionary positioning, including their obsessions with DEI program and book eradications and bannings, are so important for them.

This is why many giggle admiringly at Trump’s own disgraceful excesses with respect to the “opposite sex,” like Billy Bush was heard doing on that infamous bus ride with Trump just before the 2016 election.

This is why so many of them reject vaccines because they are told they may add to their own great difficulties in achieving a meaningful arousal. This is why there is so much perversion and rape in their ranks.

In reality, in this century, it will not be through mass deaths on battlefields that wars will be fought. At best the role of ground troops will be overwhelmingly subordinated to what will be fought through the air, in space, over foreboding terrains such as the Arctic, or by the lobbing of nuclear warheads.

Through Trump’s ugly zero sum approach, regrettably, such wars now appear in the offing. If we are to avoid this inevitable end game scenario to what Trump, in his irrational sociopathic rage, is currently doing to the world, there must be a resolute, uncompromising and effective resistance.