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Why Trump and Hegseth’s swagger leaves Washington’s ‘elite’ seething

When you’ve constructed a cartoon version of the world in your mind, what do you do when reality proves it wrong? 

If you’re the leftist establishment, you certainly don’t rethink your assumptions.

Late Friday, New York Times columnist David French snarkily referred to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth as a “walking MAGA caricature” on X.  

Four hours later, Hegseth’s troops were pounding Iran in an intricate series of strikes that left its evil regime reeling.

The response to French — who has not withdrawn his sneer — was unsympathetic. 

My favorite:  “Let’s have a contest . . . you and Pete show up at Fort Bragg, see who the troops respect more.”

Is Hegseth a caricature? 

To French and his ilk, maybe; but to many others, he’s a guy who gets results. 

Presumably a 1945 David French would have considered Gen. George S. Patton a caricature, too.  

US troops were killed in Iran strike on bunker in Kuwait: Hegseth

Hegseth rallies US troops at ‘turning point America has waited for since 1979’: ‘This is your moment’

Hegseth bans military from attending Princeton, Columbia, other elite universities: ‘Wokeness and weakness’

But the thing is, like Patton, Hegseth not only talks tough, and acts tough; he is tough. 

The raids on Iranian nuclear........

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