In any sane world, the Republican Party would be falling over itself to impeach Pete Hegseth, if for no other reason than the political points they could score with the American people after last week’s historic midterm loss for the GOP.
Hegseth is an unpopular buffoon, plain and simple. In a sea of incompetent boobs, he is by far the one who has caused the most damage, embarrassed this nation the most, and hurt us the most on the international stage, behind, of course, his boss, Donald Trump. The vast majority of Americans hate him. He’s destroying the Pentagon. He’s weakening the military. He’s losing this war. He’s destroying the economy and the global energy market. He’s a performative poser. And he’s made all of us in this country dramatically less safe.
This should be an easy call, now that Thomas Massie has moved forward a discharge petition to impeach Hegseth. But the Republican Party is nothing but a bunch of fucking cowards.
I expect we’ll have a few Republican members who will vote to impeach Hegseth in the House, and maybe a few, like Senator Thom Tillis as he enters retirement, who will vote to remove him in the Senate. But ultimately, the vast majority of these hacks are going to fall in line, support their king, and do what they’re told. And that’s the whole problem.
They should remove him because he continues to purge highly qualified, experienced personnel inside the United States military who actually know what the fuck they’re doing. Because someday we might need them to defend us.
They should remove him because he’s denying benefits to the families of those who have lost their lives in this illegal war that he and Donald Trump started out of choice and stupidity, rather than patriotism or a sense of keeping us safe.
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They should remove him for ordering a double-tap Tomahawk missile strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed 120 children and 36 civilians, most of them parents and teachers. The deadliest U.S. strike on civilians in the 21st century. For reportedly ordering his military to “kill everyone” in a follow-up strike on boats in the Caribbean, in violation of the Geneva Conventions and the Pentagon’s own laws of war.
They should remove him for demanding the military livestream the firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood. A demand so despicable, so outrageous, that even Donald Trump had to backtrack his own support for holding the first public execution in the United States in nearly a century.
They should remove him, if for no other reason than the fact that he and Donald Trump keep lying about the number of people who have been killed or wounded in this war.
And this comes back to a broader point I’ve been writing about since Tuesday’s election. These people have learned absolutely nothing. And they will continue to learn absolutely nothing. They’re not capable of introspection. Pete Hegseth, genuinely, to his core, believes he is doing a great job. He believes he should be the next president. That’s why he’s apparently making moves to step aside eventually and go run, even though he’s proven himself to be wholly incompetent, dangerous, reckless, and unqualified.
Trump thinks he’s doing a great job too. He was on 60 Minutes the other night talking about how we’re still living in the golden age of America. He was at a press conference yesterday talking about how Pete Hegseth has won this war in Iran, something nobody believes.
It’s a damn shame what’s become of the Republican Party.
You would think that after a historic election where Democrats picked up what I think will ultimately be 56 Senate seats and an unbelievable number of House seats, after flipping entire states, like Texas, Republicans would finally have an incentive to look inward.
Losing Texas which should send a cold chill down the spine of every Republican operative and politician in this country, should be an opportunity that they might take to learn something. It’s the kind of political reckoning that should force a party to ask itself some difficult questions about where it went wrong, why voters abandoned it, and what it needs to do differently. But no chance. They can’t change. They’re not capable of change..Apparently, even that isn’t enough.
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And that’s what makes this whole thing so remarkable. Republicans didn’t just lose an election. They were handed an unmistakable message by the American people, and they seem utterly incapable of learning a damn thing from it.
I firmly believe this Republican Party needs to be burned to the ground and the earth salted. And at this point, I don’t even care if something arises out of it. I want good human beings in office who are going to wake up every day and try to do what’s right, who are going try to improve people’s lives, make sure we’re safe, and be fucking normal. That’s why I’m so excited about last Tuesday. We elected a bunch of normal people who just want to get shit done, like Annie Andrews and James Talarico. And if Republicans won’t learn the lesson they should have learned last week, then we’re going to do this all again in 2028, and Democrats have to cast the widest possible net when we do.
We need to be tough. Sometimes we’re going to be mean. That’s what it takes to win. But we can’t ever lose sight of the fact that we’re trying to help improve people’s lives. This is a nation of people who are struggling right now, working hard, doing everything right, fighting to build lives of dignity for themselves and for their families. And we can deliver for them. We should start by doing everything we can to limit the damage that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth and the rest of this administration are doing.
And I want to come back to that press conference yesterday. Because Trump also repeatedly said that we haven’t lost a single life in this war.
That’s disgusting. At least 21 families will never be made whole again because of the loss of life. You can feel however you want about this conflict, but those are brave souls who stepped forward to serve this nation and keep Americans safe. And their memory is being disrespected by the commander in chief and his rabid lapdog, Pete Hegseth.
That’s who Republicans are protecting if they keep him in that job.
I’m going to keep writing about this every step of the way, and I’m going to call out every Republican who chooses Hegseth over those families. If that matters to you, become a paid subscriber. Your support is what lets me do this work independently, without anyone telling me what I can and can’t say.
Show them we can fight. Show them we can win. And I believe the American people will reward us in the end.
With urgency,
—Mike
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Well said, Mike.
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