Mr. Hegseth, despite his heavy baggage, represents something that needs to be acknowledged: the deep bipartisan dissatisfaction with a military leadership that has presided over 20 years of failed wars and incalculable costs to America's veterans and their families.
Hegseth has become an influential adopter of the isolationist views that have flourished among veterans who bore the greatest toll for the global war on terror. That toll—including combat injuries, diseases from exposure to burn pits, brain damage and a suicide crisis—has deepened their frustrations with the political status quo.
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