In any article on the political and cultural wars taking place within the United States military, one would expect former President Joe Biden’s name to be featured prominently.
The reason for that, of course, is because of the degradation of our fighting forces under Biden’s watch due in part to a dangerous obsession with implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the name of woke, emphasizing them over actual merit, readiness, and fitness to lead.
Legal Insurrection extensively documented this during Biden’s four years in office. Examples:
During his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly vowed to undo the damage Biden had done by, among other things, setting up a task force that would be charged with dismantling DEI in the military.
It’s something he followed through with after the election in part by nominating Iraq/Afghanistan wars veteran and DEI critic Pete Hegseth for Defense Secretary and by nominating former Space Force Lieutenant Colonel squadron commander Matt Lohmeier to be the Under Secretary of the Air Force.
Lohmeier, as Legal Insurrection has reported, was — under Joe Biden’s leadership —”fired, forced to resign without a pension just before his retirement date and subjected to an Inspector General investigation within the Pentagon after” publishing a best-selling book that shined an unflattering spotlight on the wokeification within the military.
With all of that in mind, we turn to an article from the New York Times which took the gaslighting to the extremes by accusing Trump of, I kid you not, pulling “the military back into the political and culture wars” over actions he’s taken to expressly remove them from it:
From the piece:
In his early-days blitz, President Trump fired the first woman to ever lead a military service branch, signed an order to send active-duty U.S. troops to the border and said he was reinstating, with back pay, former service members who had refused to take Covid vaccinations, a breach of military health rules.
And a portrait of his former senior military adviser, whom Mr. Trump has accused of disloyalty, was swiftly taken down at the Pentagon.
Mr. Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, said at his confirmation hearing last week that the president wanted a military “laser-focused on lethality, meritocracy, warfighting, accountability and readiness.”
It is not starting off that way.
Instead, the military is back where it has historically not wanted to be: in the middle of political and culture wars that could erode bipartisan support and, eventually, the public’s support for a military that is supposed to be apolitical.
Are you kidding me?
To be sure, there is always some degree of politicizing and culture warring in the military no matter who the Commander in Chief is. However, the media treating Trump as though he’s the main offender in this scenario when he’s not even close to that —while not even giving Joe Biden one single mention despite the absolute havoc he wreaked on our armed forces — is just flat-out nuts.
-Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter/X.-
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