Professor Lincoln Comments to The Atlantic on Trump's So-Called 'Strength' in Fighting Coronavirus

THE ATLANTIC -- “Strongman characterizations seem to revolve around the dispositional, temperamental features of a leader,” says Martha Lincoln, a medical anthropologist at San Francisco State University, “but I think there’s some magical thinking about the physical resilience of such a person, too.” Even when Trump himself fell sick, he and his supporters couched his experience in the language of strength, victory and courage. “Don’t let it dominate you,” he said in a video.