Pete Hegseth is promoting a nihilist cult of death ^90.6%

The Guardian - By Jan-Werner Müller - 3/23/2026, 10:00 AM

It appears that members of Trump’s cabinet get chosen not despite their endorsements of violence, but because of them. Pete Hegseth was primarily known as a dapper TV host willing to defend war crimes. Markwayne Mullin is apparently still proud of challenging a witness to a fistfight at a Senate hearing; he also refuses to apologize for... more