Pete Hegseth

It got immediately reversed under Biden.

Things like that, because it's a top-down, I'm not saying top-down is the only way that works.

I know that.

I know that you top-down things and people can ignore it and they can maneuver it and they can work around it.

I just think there's enough of a core inside the DOD

that if you push top down and then you change the way you do basic training and the way you do recruiting and the way you do the military academies, you have a fighting chance to restore an ethos.

Now, that doesn't say anything about how the politicians will use that military in the future, which they have a horrible track record of, but institutionally, you at least have a chance.

I don't know.

I mean, I think that one of the amazing parts is the lies that our senior leaders were willing to tell us, even though they knew they were not true.

Like, suddenly this idea that Mark Milley just discovered that the whole institution was systemically racist, that all these bases needed to be changed.

Like, you know, Fort Bragg can't be Fort Bragg.

I mean, if I'm correct, I think he was the commander of Fort Hood, I think.

You know...

Why didn't he speak up when he was at Fort Hood?

How could you possibly command at a base named after a Confederate and not say something?

So what are you, complicit?

But now suddenly after George Floyd, to your point, after defund the police, it became faddish.

to insinuate that the military ranks are infected with racists, that it's all these white nationalists under the radar with tattoos just waiting to pop up.

And ultimately, on the recruiting side, what you've done is you've bud lighted yourself.

You basically, we'll get to that in a second.