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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In 2020 our Secretary of Defense nominee said there would be civil war if Democrats won the Presidency, and that the military would have to chose sides

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/22/trump-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-book
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+1 Jonathan Chait with The Atlantic has read all of his books (three in the last few years) and there’s tons of disqualifying stuff in there. That public education is a communist plot, that vaccines are poison, and that socialists were responsible for the Holocaust, among others.

"The main question I was looking to answer when I started reading Hegseth’s collected works was whether he would follow a Trump command to shoot peaceful protesters. After having read them, I don’t think he would even wait for the order."

Hegseth “considers himself to be at war with basically everybody to Trump’s left, and it is by no means clear that he means war metaphorically.”

He calls for the “categorical defeat of the Left” and says that without its “utter annihilation,” “America cannot, and will not, survive.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/pete-hegseth-books-trump/680744/?gift=cAi0XjdW-W3cRUws9AyEUl0t-yYFv3CC0oliageSwyk&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

And again, these views and his disgusting behavior in his personal life are second and third to the fact that he’s never run an organization with more than a couple dozen people and to put him in charge of the largest bureaucracy in the world is insane.[/quote]

All of this. He's an intellectual lightweight with no relevant experience who has expressed a broad range of anti-democratic and totalitarian attitudes over the years.

He's honestly even less acceptable than Gaetz. His confirmation hearing is going to be a total mess. And the Senators who were lining up against Gaetz were spared having to cast a vote against Trump's nominee there and will likely go ahead and rubber stamp Bondi who at least is qualified and doesn't have any giant skeletons in her closet (she comes pre-vetted because of her high profile in Florida and in Republican politics). That frees them up to vote against Hegseth or Gabbbard, and I think some would be willing to vote against both because Gabbard isn't even a Republican and the national security stuff is very non-partisan as objections go.

I just do not understand why Trump would waste any capital on this guy -- good chance he doesn't get through even if he gets to hearings. Seems like a waste.[/quote]

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