In the 1960s, it was the Democrats–JFK and LBJ–who swaggered. JFK’s style, minus the womanizing, would probably still play today. In the 1980s, however, Reagan made the GOP the party of swagger, and the rest is history; the left has preferred cerebral metrosexuals to cowboys. Is there any possibility of reverting to the earlier type?
Fetterman and Eric Adams suggest that the answer is yes. Since most Democratic voters are women, however, it is more complicated than it was in the 1960s. Left-leaning swagger has to come with a side dish of #MeToo.