I wonder what George Lakoff must be thinking, seeing his archetypical "strong father figure" facing off against the "nurturing mother" archetype (stay with me, they're just archetypes, not to be taken literally).

The terrified little authoritarians are lining up behind the Strong Man who literally says "only I can save you!". Leaving Nurturing Mother to try to keep us calm and carrying on.

Same as it ever was, in other words. Unique in our time, maybe, but this is an archetypical story that keeps haunting us from deep in our primate psyches.

Spoiler alert: Historically, I'd bet on testosterone. But hope that times, they are a'changing.