Other than President Donald Trump, the man most hated by Democrats in America is probably Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
Since he took over the Pentagon in January 2025, he’s done everything a person could do to tick off the leftist-dominated party and its media enablers.
He quickly put an end to DEI mandates, banned transgenders from the armed forces and created a robust military culture emphasizing duty, toughness and excellence.
The biggest black marks in Democrats’ minds are Mr. Hegseth’s unabashed evangelical faith, initiating Bible studies at the Pentagon and encouraging prayer.
And then there’s the U.S. armed forces’ spectacular success at destroying most of Iran’s military, including its entire navy, and crippling its nuclear program. Can’t have that, according to Democrats, who appear to be rooting for Iran to defeat the U.S.
Instead of eliminating a growing nuclear threat, they apparently think it’s smarter to keep shipping billions in cash to the terrorist regime like former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden did.
[…]A front-page story in The Washington Post on March 30 made Mr. Hegseth comparable to the villainous dictators of Gilead, the fictional totalitarian regime in Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
The runover page had a large photo of Mr. Hegseth with creased eyebrows and a frown worthy of a kooky despot, along with this headline: “Hegseth’s wartime proselytizing breaks with military history.” The caption says: “Every month at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hosts evangelical services that legal experts say are unprecedented.”
Those same “experts” undoubtedly hate Arnold Friberg’s famous 1975 painting, “The Prayer at Valley Forge,” showing Gen. George Washington kneeling in the snow beside his horse to pray.
America’s first president often said faith was vital for his troops’ success. On July 20, 1775, Washington ordered “all officers and soldiers to attend Divine services.” He issued a statement on July 2, 1776, that could easily apply to today’s war against Islamist terrorism:
“The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.”
Another Post photo shows soldiers at a Bible study at Fort Hood, Texas. It’s supposed to scare us.
[…]A Pew Research Center survey published on April 7 found that 80% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents hold an unfavorable view of Israel.
Christians and Jews would do well to figure out who’s on their side and to vote accordingly.
— Robert Knight, April 20 WorldNetDaily column