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. (The link goes to Yahoo.)
Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s 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.
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”.
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.”
“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.”
“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.