David Marcus: The Republican Party lost all the point of the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth

Pete Hegseth squered into his confirmation of the Senate on Friday and became The new Secretary of Defense of the United StatesBut you don’t need to thank Republican senators Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins.

For the three establishment senators and Anti-Trump, the main objection to Hegseth entering the first work of the Pentagon was that they believe he lacks the experience of a previous requirement to direct the gigantic organization. This is how Murkowski expressed it in an X publication: “Managing the Department of Defense requires extensive experience and experience, since the department is one of the most complex and powerful organizations in the world, and the previous roles of Mr. Hegseth in his Carrera do not demonstrate for me that he is prepared for such immense responsibility. “

It doesn’t matter that Hegseth has been educated in Princeton and Harvard and served more than a decade in the US Army infantry. UU. Forget that he reached the specialization range while toured in Afghanistan. And ignore that he is an published author who has directed veteran defense organizations. The problem for these senators was that Hegseth lacks the traditional credential of having worked for a defense contractor, the same type that has been captured in the last two decades by the hegesh alarm agenda has promised to eliminate.

Republicans react to the confirmation of Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense: “He is the agent of change”

Let’s take Trump’s last Secretary of Defense, the eminently qualified Mark Esper. Like Hegesh, Esper served in the army, but when leaving active service, he maintained a collection of high profile jobs with legislators, the Chamber of Commerce and, finally, as vice president of the Defense Company Raytheon.

This is exactly the type of curriculum that McConnell, Murkowski and Collins were looking for. Esper is the type of person who obtains 90 votes in favor of confirmation, as he did in 2019, but when building that corporate CV he looked the other way while the institutions to which he served hugged Wokeness and Dei.

This is what Shanda Hinton, Raytheon Technologies diversity director, said in 2023: “Advance in diversity, equity and inclusion is more than a goal: it is our duty and a critical element of our ESG strategy. This recognition only encourages us to continue pressing to create a generational change. “

This was the friendly coward of the old Republican party, always scared to be called names on the left if they did not pretend that men can become women and the United States is a deeply racist country.

I am not trying to argue that Esper is some kind of IBRAM X Kendi when it comes to things like the theory of critical race. But he clearly looked the other way while these perverse progressive mentalities strengthen.

This was the friendly coward of the old Republican party, always scared to be called names on the left if they did not pretend that men can become women and the United States is a deeply racist country. But now is the courage time. That is why Hegseth is the right man for this moment. While the Mark Espers of the world remained as Dei and Wokeness programs infected the military and defense industry, Hegseth was writing books about the institutional capture of the left of our Armed Forces and schools.

It is possible that the former weekend host of “Fox & Friends” has never been a C-Suiter in a massive corporation, but all those companies have been complicit in the policies based on the merit that Hegseth promised to disconnect during his audience of his audience Senate confirmation. .

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In a very real sense, Hegseth is qualified because he is not “qualified.” Almost anyone who reviewed the boxes demanded by McConnell, Murkowski and Collins would come from the same group of group thought that has weakened our military in the name of diversity.

The American people voted for Trump largely because they know that the Democrats have lost their heads in the cultural war. We do not want men in women’s sports and we want an army to focus on being lethal, not politically correct.

If Hegseth ends on his head, we will know it quite fast, and with pleasure I will apologize with his twin detractors on the republican side of the Senate’s hall, but it is very unlikely to happen, and how high the bar is really the bar when the bar is really the bar when the bar is really the bar when the bar is really the bar when the bar is really the bar when the bar is really Austin simply disappeared for a few days anyone cared?

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Hegesh has the opportunity to fix the military in the way Trump wants him because the American people chose Trump to do that exact.

The elections, they say, have consequences and a defense department led by Hegseth is a great consequence for those who want merit, justice and competition in the army. It is a shame, but maybe it is not surprising that Collins, McConnell and Murkowski could not see this. Fortunately, Vance made sure that his wrong opinions did not stand on the royal road in the Pentagon.

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