Tom Nichols: When Hegseth Said He’d Get Rid of Woke in the Military, He Meant Black and Female Senior Officers

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NICHOLS: “Well, I would separate those two things because Hegseth, when he first came in, really wanted to make his bones as, you know, the guy that was going to turf all these woke, and by woke, he means black and female senior officers. But I think what’s going on now, and I think what you’re seeing with Phelan is Hegseth is very worried that he’s going to lose his job. And so, he’s trying to repopulate the Pentagon and its environment with people who won’t support him getting fired, you know, who will stand up and say, I owe my job to Pete Hegseth. He’s a great leader. Please, Mr. President, don’t let him go. That’s one of the things. This is kind of how palace politics has played in Washington, that you repopulate a lot of the offices around you with people that are loyal to you, so that if the — first of all, then the scuttlebutt about getting fired doesn’t become scuttlebutt, because nobody will talk about it because they’re your friends.”