# The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 1)

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**Created:** [November 11, 2024, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068 "2024-11-11T06:19:24Z")
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### Author: ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2024, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/383 "2024-11-25T08:34:06Z")

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What would you think would be high on the list of things for a nominee for Secretary of Defense to talk about. No, you fool! (It really doesn’t matter what your answer was; not even Carnac the Magnificent would have gotten it.) [It is, of course, having a chain of Christian nationalist schools as boot camps for an underground army.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-defense-secretary-pick-pete-203522975.html) (The link goes to Yahoo.)

> [Pete Hegseth](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/pete-hegseth), [Donald Trump’s](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/donald-trump) pick to be secretary of defense, has called for an “educational insurgency” to take over American schools in an appearance on a right-wing podcast.
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> During a _CrossPolitic_ discussion about religiously affiliated schools, Hegseth explained his idea for a system of “classical Christian schools” to provide “recruits” for an underground army that could eventually launch an “educational insurgency”.
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> Host Toby Sumpter said: “I think we need to be thinking in terms of these classical Christian schools are boot camps for winning back America.”
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> “That’s what the crop of these classical Christian schools are gonna do in a generation,” Hegseth agreed. “Policy answers like school choice, while they’re great, that’s phase two stuff later on once the foothold has been taken, once the recruits have graduated boot camp.”
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> “We call it a tactical retreat,” Hegseth continued. “We draw out in the last part of the book what an educational insurgency would look like — because I was a counterinsurgency instructor in Afghanistan — and kind of the phases that Mao [Zedong] wrote about.

Wait! Did he just admit he’s cribbing from a [vapours]_communist_[/vapours]?

Jesus Christ. There is nothing these fools won’t do to destroy the country.

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