Steve Bannon and I seldom agree, but in an interview with a Bloomberg reporter he said this. “It’s not just sexual harassment, it’s an anti-patriarchy movement. Times are up on 10,000 years of recorded history. This is coming. This is real!” Bannon meant it as something to be scared of, not at all encouraging as I do.

Bannon advised Donald Trump during the campaign and for a few months afterward. He believes the people who voted for Trump are scared of the change. Trump represents the idea that men are supposed to be the leader and any sign of weakness is going to cost him support. His image is of the alpha male over lesser men and domination over women is a must.

Trump’s election was a direct consequence of this dynamic change in gender relations and responsibility. That is the reason a very good friend voted for Trump. Many times he has expressed his fear of women gaining strength in business, politics, and religion. Much of this cultural bias comes from his childhood family and the church. Church leaders are men not women. The more religious and farther south a person goes, the more it was true. Was, I hope, may be the proper word.

The first time I heard a woman should be two steps behind and one to the right was in a southern church. The oft-told words for being a man were to keep the wife barefoot and pregnant. Although the practice no longer exists in most areas of America, the culture still lives on in many of the rural areas Trump won.

Bannon is no longer in the White House or running Breitbart News, but it wasn’t his philosophy that cost him. Both places still run on white males being supreme beings and how others are treated as unimportant. We will see if that is still true in November.