William Lindsey Mar 23

"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 'understanding' an assault on fellow senator Rand Paul."

~ Jan-Werner Müller

#Trump #Hegseth #violence #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/23/pete-hegseth-nihilist-cult

Pete Hegseth is promoting a nihilist cult of death

The Trump administration is embracing violence for the sake of violence

The Guardian
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Mar 23

"Never before has an administration so openly glorified outright killing as the current White House propaganda machine does with its obscene snuff videos of the Iran war and the destruction of small boats.

Unlike with fascism in the 20th century, there is no attempt to promote or symbolically reward self-sacrifice –" (continued in /3)

#Trump #Hegseth #violence #WhiteChristianNationalism
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Show threadKevin Karhan 

@wdlindsy you wrote "#CrimeOfAggression" and "Acts of #Piracy" wrong.

#WarCrimes #USpol

Mar 23 at 3:04pmWeb