It isn't just Hegseth by any means. GWB calling for a new "Crusade" at the rubble of the WTC after 9/11 wasn't an error. The integration of evangelical Christianity, the Republican Party and the military industrial complex is deep. In its soul, the US is a Christian theocracy which has been struggling to free itself from the shackles of secular republicanism (in the government sense, not the party sense) ever since its founding.
Pete Hegseth's beliefs aren't even unusual for much of the country, he just isn't canny enough to play the game his predecessors did and not say the quiet part out loud.
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It isn't just Hegseth by any means. GWB calling for a new "Crusade" at the rubble of the WTC after 9/11 wasn't an error. The integration of evangelical Christianity, the Republican Party and the military industrial complex is deep. In its soul, the US is a Christian theocracy which has been struggling to free itself from the shackles of secular republicanism (in the government sense, not the party sense) ever since its founding.
Pete Hegseth's beliefs aren't even unusual for much of the country, he just isn't canny enough to play the game his predecessors did and not say the quiet part out loud.