Hegseth has no qualifications for secretary of defense. He has run 2 organizations and they both failed. He is known to be an alcoholic and has problematic personnel relationships. It seems that he may have only been chosen because he meets certain race conditions as well as having certain ideologies that don’t correspond to being a good military leader.
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This article addresses the concerns regarding Hegseth nicely. https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-gop-trio-missed-whole-point-secretary-defense-pete-hegseth
In a very real sense, Hegseth is qualified because he isn’t "qualified." Almost anybody who checked the boxes that McConnell, Murkowski and Collins demand would be coming from the same groupthink swamp that has made our military weaker in the name of diversity.
Deus vult!
If Hegseth were a DEI hire... men are like, such a large group to pull from, and top 0.01% individuals are virtually all men. Him being a white man only cuts the number of men in half. This hypothesis makes no sense.
It makes much more sense that he was picked because Trump expects Hegseth to be "loyal" and "MAGA". That's really all there is to it. But, hot take, yes, men should run our military. The world sees that America allows women to sign up for the military, fight, and die and laughs at us. The point of the armed forces is supposed to be to defend women, but to the West, apparently it's to enlist them and have them die.
@stardust that would still imply he is a DEI hire. DEI not just race. But also ideologies that don’t correspond to being good at their job. If he had real good experience managing large organizations then that would imply he has actual qualifications.
@JDTurk It's a somewhat shaky presupposition to assume this static "good at your job". What does that mean, exactly? What is your job, what should it be? Suppose we have a speaker of the house who knows the process very well, can turn all the keys to get what he wants passed when, etc., and superhumanly can predict the effects of legislation. But his single-handed goal is to increase banana production. Is he "good at his job"?
Trump clearly wants his job to be to "tear down the system". For that, Hegseth seems plenty good for the job.