Joe Rogan vs. Liver King beef shows MAGA male fragility

Brian Johnson , a MAGA -aligned “manfluencer’s” manfluencer, has been charged with “terroristic threats” to Joe Rogan .

Johnson built his audience with implausible claims that he built his body through workouts and an “ancestral” diet.

Johnson and Rogan neatly illustrate the paradox of this form of masculinity: One claims to be “strong, but fragile and easily threatened”.

Psychologists call this paradox “precarious manhood’s tenuous and impermanent.

The rise of authoritarianism is always intertwined with precarious masculinity.

Authoritarians claim to be “strong,” but in reality, they are so weak they cannot withstand dissent or diversity.

The only way to “win” is to get off the hamster wheel of precarious masculinity, writes Julian Zelizer .