Sherry Twamley

Thomas Massie and the rest of the “principled” Republicans just discovered a sudden, burning passion for impeaching Pete Hegseth. Not over Iran. Not over Signal chats. Not over any actual crime. They’re coming for him because he’s the only thing currently standing between Donald Trump and a quiet, professional, PowerPoint-backed military nullification that nobody ever has to call a coup. Hegseth spent the last year firing the generals who spent a decade treating the Constitution like toilet paper and the chain of command as a slumber party. He cut the number of senior officers whose entire job was sitting in air-conditioned rooms deciding which presidential orders felt “problematic.” He made it clear the military answers to the guy who just won an election, not to the last guy who got a 7 figure book deal and a CNN contract. That’s the unforgivable sin. The permanent national-security class and their congressional errand boys got used to a Pentagon that slowwalks, leaks, and quietly refuses until the “correct” people are back in charge. Hegseth is making that harder. So now they want the shield gone. Get rid of him and the rest of the machinery can get back to work. They’ll call it accountability. They always do...