The specific vision of the military Pete Hegseth is tasked with selling

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : It's no wonder, then, that to sell this authoritarian vision of the military to the American people, Trump has chosen a smooth-talking weekend host of a network that is trusted by his base.
44% : Even before Trump started shouting about claiming Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal for America, he indicated his desire to break with tradition by deploying the military for domestic operations.
34% : Evidently, Trump seeks a defense secretary who shares those generals' (supposed) total and unquestioning obedience.
16% : He has proposed using the military to assist with mass deportations of undocumented immigrants and involving the military in openly political actions (subjecting former Rep. Liz Cheney to a military tribunal or using the military or the National Guard against Democratic politicians, critics and protesters, whom Trump has called "the enemy from within").
3% : Trump's choice of Hegseth vindicates the judgment of high-ranking civilian and retired military officials, like former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley, who labeled Trump a "fascist to the core" -- an assessment seconded by Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly, who recounted that Trump complained to him that U.S. generals weren't as loyal to him as "Hitler's generals."

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