Political positions of Pete Hegseth

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Pete Hegseth, who is the 29th United States secretary of defense, has been described as a Christian nationalist, a Christian patriot, and an ultraconservative. In his 2020 book, American Crusade: Our Fight to Stay Free, Hegseth said he believes there are "irreconcilable differences between the Left and the Right in America leading to perpetual conflict that cannot be resolved through the political process". He furthermore called for an "American crusade", which he described as "a holy war for the righteous cause of human freedom". Hegseth characterizes "Americanism" in being opposition to forces like feminism, globalism, Marxism and progressivism and says either "Americanism" will prevail or "death" will. In a May 2024 interview where he talked about education, Hegseth emphasized that the U.S. is a constitutional republic, "Democracy, democracy, defend the democracy. Do you know what our founders did not want us to be? A democracy." Hegseth has explicitly rejected democracy in his book...

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