{"id":163392,"date":"2024-11-22T11:21:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T16:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=163392"},"modified":"2024-11-22T11:21:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T16:21:46","slug":"taking-pete-hegseths-book-an-american-crusade-out-of-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=163392","title":{"rendered":"Taking Pete Hegseth’s book, An American Crusade, out of context"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jason Wilson, a journalist for The Guardian, penned an article taking Pete Hegseth’s “An American Crusade” out of context. In the book, Hegseth identifies strategies, protected by the First Amendment, to take on the left’s propaganda messaging and actions. He also highlighted some “worst-case scenarios” but otherwise advocated actions consistent with what many groups have already done. For example, parents taking on school boards regarding what was being taught to their children. However, Wilson’s article hints of something more sinister and “illegal.”<\/p>\n

From The Guardian:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

At various points in that book, he describes leftists, progressives and Democrats as “enemies” of freedom, the US constitution and America, and counts Israel among the “international allies” who can help defeat such “domestic enemies”.<\/p>\n

Addressing his conservative audience in a chapter of American Crusade entitled Make the Crusade Great Again, he writes: “Whether you like it or not, you are an ‘infidel’ — an unbeliever — according to the false religion of leftism.” He added: “You can submit now or later; or you can fight.”<\/p>\n

Later in the book, he writes: “Build the wall. Raise tariffs. Learn English. Buy American. Fight back.”<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in American Crusade, he writes: “The hour is late for America. Beyond political success, her fate relies on exorcising the leftist specter dominating education, religion, and culture — a 360-degree holy war for the righteous cause of human freedom.”<\/p>\n

In fighting, Hegseth wrote: “Our weapon is American nationalism,” adding: “The Left has tried … to intimidate us into thinking that nationalism is a relic of a bygone era.”<\/p>\n

Hegseth has followed his own advice in this respect: his tattoos include the words “We the People”, quoted from the constitution, and a “stylized American flag with its bottom stripe replaced by an AR-15 assault rifle” according to Snopes.com reporting.<\/p>\n

In relation to the media, “almost all” politicians and credentialled experts, Hegseth advises readers to “Disdain, despise, detest, distrust — pick your d-words. But all of this must lead to action.”<\/p>\n

Some actions he recommends resemble forms of disruption and harassment that Trump-aligned activists have brought to nonpartisan local government bodies.<\/p>\n

Hegseth tells readers: “The next time conservative views are squelched in your local school, host a free-speech sit-in in your kids’ school lobby and make your case,” and “When local businesses declare ‘gun free zones,’ remember the Second Amendment, carry your legally owned firearm, and dare them to tell you it’s not allowed.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wilson, J. (2024, November 22). Trump’s Pentagon pick Hegseth wrote of US military taking sides in ‘civil war’. The Guardian<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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