Pete Hegseth’s holy war on “weirdos” targets most Americans
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Pete Hegseth is odd. This isn’t just a personal opinion, though there’s no doubt that he gets widely mocked for his carefully cultivated public persona, which is a mix of megachurch preacher, gym rat and Robert Duvall’s napalm-huffing character in “Apocalypse Now.” The fact that the defense secretary is different is simply a statistical reality. It’s not just that he’s a white evangelical Christian, a group that, according to PRRI, makes up only 13% of…
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