Update - an earlier post described a Minnesota trial on human trafficing, immigrant smuggling where four family members froze to death crossing the Northern Border in a blizzard.

 That story is here. The latest news is the jury deliberated for an hour and found the two defendants guilty on all counts. Sentencing remains open for now.

Guardian does a book review. It is of a very weird and threatening book. It is a book authored by Pete Hegseth, and likely not ghost-written.

 Link. Read it. From the review, without directly reading anything Hegseth has authored, it just sounds Christo-Fascist to where it offers me nothing to respect. 

Suggesting of hate and a narrow unconventional mind. A mind set ready for a tyranny.

 

Guardian wrote -

In one of his five published books he wrote that in the event of a Democratic election victory in the US there would be a “national divorce” in which “The military and police … will be forced to make a choice” and “Yes, there will be some form of civil war.”

Hegseth’s 2020 book exhorts conservatives to undertake “an AMERICAN CRUSADE”, to “mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist opponents”, to “attack first” in response to a left he identifies with “sedition”, and he writes that the book “lays out the strategy we must employ in order to defeat America’s internal enemies”.

Hegseth’s rhetoric about perceived “internal” or “domestic enemies”, along with media reports highlighting his tattoo of the crusader motto “Deus Vult”, may ring alarm bells for those concerned by Donald Trump’s repeated threats to unleash the US military, which Hegseth would directly control, on those he has described as “the enemy within”.

 Weird things to have ones mind on. This is not thinking of a level-headed government operative able to view and understrand and weigh things from all sides. If it were just some grumbling outlier nobody, it would be ignored. As mind meandering of a nominee to head the largest military in history, it takes on a greater need for very serious consideration. 

One hopes Senators can as a body think through things when the time comes. In Federalist papers having two legislative bodies was not only a mere compromise toward smaller populated States. It was viewed as having a smaller handful of lucid minds with longer terms than those more directly representative of immediate whims and fancies of local and vocal populations or individuals. A check upon unwise passions which were foreseen.

In short, Hegseth is a Christo-fascist bomb thrower. On the doorstep. May the Senate refuse to confirm him. They, the senators, stand between him and us.

Recall: It was thought bicameral arrangements in 1776 were better able to resist tyranny. With Senators intended to be the more able minds.