The elitist assaults on Donald Trump’s protection secretary decide Pete Hegseth present precisely why Democrats misplaced the election in a landslide.
Clever, articulate, patriotic, a graduate of Princeton and Harvard, a fight veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, with two Bronze Stars, Hegseth, 44, is an impressed alternative to steer the Pentagon and rid it of the woke poison that has despatched recruitment ranges down the bathroom.
Not solely that, however he has a tattoo of “We the People” on his arm, a visual signal of his America First dedication to the Structure, whose first phrases remind us that America at its founding rejected rule by elites.
And but, as a result of Hegseth most lately has been a well-liked Fox Information host, the liberal intelligentsia is accusing him of being silly and unqualified.
He’s lots higher certified to run the Protection Division than Kamala Harris ever was to be commander in chief.
No extra Mr. Good Man
In fact, after Trump introduced Wednesday that firebrand MAGA-bro Rep. Matt Gaetz was his lawyer common decide, the left utterly misplaced its thoughts.
However they requested for it.
With Gaetz, an articulate and fearless pit-bull congressman from Florida, Trump is signaling that it’s no extra Mr. Good Man in his second time period, relating to the corrupted Division of Justice that carried out lawfare towards him and his allies, ran cowl for the Biden household’s corruption, sicced the FBI onto dad and mom at school-board conferences and Christians praying exterior abortion clinics, and handled non-violent Jan. 6 protesters like home terrorists.
Beltway insider journalist Mark Halperin summed up the response: “Donald Trump’s selection of Matt Gaetz for attorney general has hit official Washington like a bomb.”
Observe the most recent on President-elect Donald Trump’s cupboard alternatives:
A rattled Andrew Weissmann, the Russiagate plotter and former DOJ prosecutor, blathered incoherently on MSNBC that Gaetz is “not just unqualified but . . . untethered to the facts and maybe also the law . . . He is Exhibit A of weaponization [and], we are in pure George Orwell ‘1984’ land.”
If the DOJ had behaved correctly and prudently, in response to the legislation, as an alternative of enjoying smash-mouth politics towards conservatives the final 4 years, they could deserve some respect.
As it’s, they get their worst nightmare, as a result of solely radical surgical procedure will repair that rotten tradition.
“Matt will end Weaponized Government, protect our Borders, dismantle Criminal Organizations and restore Americans’ badly-shattered Faith and Confidence in the Justice Department,” Trump wrote on Reality Social Wednesday.
“He is a Champion for the Constitution and the Rule of Law.”
Quelle horreur!
The rash of possible DOJ resignations to come back will present a invaluable preliminary filtering out of what Trump has referred to as “the enemy within.”
Gaetz is Trump’s preemptive declaration of warfare towards the deep state which crippled his first presidency.
Hegseth is a much less nihilistic, if equally pugnacious, alternative for the Pentagon.
He’s the right patriot to revive the morale of a dispirited army that has seen humiliation heaped on high of indignity within the Biden-Harris period — from the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan to the collapse of the Gaza pier, to not point out the exhibitionistic sexual fetishism that appears to have contaminated parts of the armed companies.
“With Pete at the helm, America’s enemies are on notice — Our Military will be Great Again, and America will Never Back Down,” Trump posted on Reality Social.
Inspecting the troops
Hegseth will eradicate from our armed companies the harmful ideology of “critical race theory” which Gen. Mark “Thoroughly Modern” Milley — former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, protégé of Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden pet and de facto former chief of the army wing of The Resistance towards Trump — as soon as defended in congressional testimony.
“I want to understand white rage,” Milley advised the Home Armed Providers Committee in June 2021.
No extra of that nonsense with Hegseth on the helm.
“No, we should only be focused on readiness and meritocracy and lethality,” he mentioned on Fox Information final 12 months.
He has brazenly described his concepts for how you can reform the army on air, in speeches and in his books reminiscent of “The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free.”
“Our ‘elites’ are like the feckless drug-addled businessmen at Nakatomi Plaza, looking down on Bruce Willis’ John McClane in ‘Die Hard,’ ” he wrote.
“But there will come a day when they realize they need John McClane — that in fact their ability to live in peace and prosperity has always depended on guys like him being honorable, powerful and deadly.”
“First of all, you’ve got to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs,” he advised podcast host Shawn Ryan.
“Any general . . . admiral, whatever, that was involved in any of the DEI/woke s–t has got to go.”
“Either you’re in for war fighting, and that’s the only litmus test we care about. You gotta get DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] and CRT [critical race theory] out of military academies. You’re not training young officers to be baptised in this kind of thinking.”
Hegseth’s critics who sneer that he’s unqualified as a result of he’s a Fox Information host are the identical individuals who insisted that Joe Biden was compos mentis, Harris was competent and her operating mate Tim “Stolen Valor” Walz, who shirked fight after which lied about it, was some form of army hero.
Libs ‘unnerved’
You possibly can decide Hegseth by his enemies.
Take the army industrial advanced, which freaked out on the information they’d not have a puppet heading the Pentagon.
Wall Avenue was “unnerved” by the Hegseth choice, reported Barrons, as a result of protection contractors will lose their clout.
“Who the f–k is this guy?” a protection business lobbyist snarked to Politico.
One other protection official advised CNN “Everyone is simply shocked” and warned that there can be an effort to “take him down.”
Trump’s treacherous warmongering former Nationwide Safety Adviser John Bolton snarked to CNN that Hegseth was “a loyalty choice . . . I think what Trump wants from his appointees is subservience.”
“Wow. Trump picking Pete Hegseth is the most hilariously predictably stupid thing,” snorted turncoat former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger.
“There’s only one reason he’s doing it: because he’s on Fox News.”
MSNBC host Joyless Reid trashed Trump’s evolving Cupboard as a “clown car” and burst out laughing on the Hegseth information: “a Fox weekend morning-show host — you can’t make this up.”
No marvel her rankings have plummeted, together with the remainder of her bitter, out-of-touch stablemates.
It’s the identical snobbery and elitism that price Dems the election — not simply the Electoral Faculty, the Home and the Senate, however the standard vote.
It’s the identical cause that Kamala Harris’ residence city of Oakland simply voted out its progressive mayor and district lawyer by a staggering 30 share factors.
It’s the identical cause that LA’s radical pro-criminal prosecutor George Gascon was thrown out in a landslide final week and California overwhelmingly voted for Proposition 36, which will increase penalties for repeat drug and theft crimes.
The occasions they’re a-changing.
Trump has the mandate for change, and he’s taking advantage of it.
