Pete Hegseth being nominated for defense secretary wasn’t on our bingo cards. We’ll leave the questions about what that means for America’s military to our friends who do foreign and defense policy. Here’s what we do know: Hegseth’s nomination could mean a truly great thing for the children of military service members.
The Department of Defense Education Activity manages 161 schools serving about 65,000 students. As we and our friends at the Claremont Institute and Open The Books have been writing about for years, and as should shock no one, the Biden administration turned these schools into woke indoctrination factories, featuring a diversity, equity, and inclusion chief who posted racially disparaging remarks about white people on social media, curriculum designed to make white students cry, and secret gender transitions.