[From “Pete Hegseth gets it, sort of.”]

A state needs a faith, and an army needs a faith. There is always a state faith. And starting with Obama, the faith of woke is currently being imposed on the army — a faith incompatible with the army’s core function[…]It is also incompatible with war production, or production of anything, as recently became apparent in the Ukraine war

And the last place where the old faith of the Republic lived was the army. Obama decided to stamp that out […]Pete Hegseth intends to restore the old faith of the Republic in the army

The trouble with the old faith of the Republic is that it only worked because of unprincipled exceptions. And if you remove all the unprincipled exceptions you get woke

If all men are created equal, blacks are equal, women are equal. If men and women are equal, they are interchangeable, and you get sodomite marriage, trannies in the army, and you have to mind your pronouns

Pete wants to restore the recently removed unprincipled exceptions. Men will no longer have an inherent universal human right to be women, nor vice versa. But he does not want the old unprincipled exceptions restored. Sodomy will remain, women will remain, provided they can make the physical, which of course they cannot, and he is going to make sure they cannot[…]
A faith that does not need unprincipled exceptions to meet reality is more viable. I want 1660, not 1770. But certainly 1770[…]is a whole lot easier to sell in the army

The inherent contradictions of the faith of 1770 got us to where we are today

Well, is he a real adherent of the faith of 1770? His experience in Afghanistan and Iraq cured him of democratic universalism[…]He is rather keen on the Bible. The founding fathers, being Deists[…],were not nearly so keen on the Bible[…]
What is important is that Trump is appointing someone who knows you have to bring a gun to gunfight and a faith to a holy war, and who understands we are in a holy war