Donald Trump's choice for secretary of defense, the former Army National Guard major and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, has no clear policy or management experience that qualifies him to run the Pentagon. What he has instead is a reactionary streak'one that's evident in his view that women should no longer have combat roles in the military. In his recent book The War on Warriors, he implies that women service members who have received military honors for their bravery were decorated because of 'an agenda.' These comments reflect a broader tendency among Trump and his allies to treat every evolution in social norms as a triumph of 'wokeness''a DEI project gone awry. Having women in combat roles 'hasn't made us more effective,' Hegseth said in an appearance on the podcast the Shawn Ryan Show earlier this month. It 'hasn't made us more lethal.' Hegseth seemed to suggest that women and men cannot behave professionally alongside each other. 'Everything about men and women serving...
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