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| Pete Hegseth |
My biggest concern about Pete Hegseth is not the allegations of sexual assault or domestic abuse. It is not the allegations of extreme alcoholism. It is not even that he seriously mismanaged two small veteran's charities, raising serious doubts about is qualification to manage an organization as large as the Pentagon
More serious is his ideology. Hegseth has notoriously defendedUS soldiers convicted of war crimes. There is every reason to believe that he would condone or even encourage war crimes as Secretary of Defense. But maybe we can avoid that issue by not getting into a war.
Hegeseth's worst trait is that is not loyal. I don't mean, of course, that he is a foreign spy or anything like that. But he gives all signs of not being loyal to the Constitution and the rule of law. Hegseth appears to regard half his fellow countrymen as a dangerous enemy within. He wanted to treat Black Lives Matter protests as all-out war. He was barred from service at the Biden inauguration as potentially unreliable.
Hegseth talks constantly about ending the "woke military." Can there be any doubt that he means imposing a strict ideological test on the leadership -- anyone is not solidly MAGA need not apply.
And what are the implications of this if, by some miracle, a Democrat were elected President in 2028. In 2020, Trump talked about sending the military to seize the ballot boxes. That was too much, even for Giuliani.
Does anyone think it would be too much for Pete Hegseth?
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