Pete Hegseth says he is all about the “warrior ethos.”

As a Jewish guy from New Jersey, I am far better equipped to discuss the worrier ethos. This explains why I was from the get-go deeply concerned about Trump appointing a Fox News mannekin to run the Department of Defense. And it is now why, if I were Hegseth, I’d be worried about being able to hang on to that job much longer.

Ironically, it now seems likely that it’s folks with real warrior ethos coming for the poseur who is their boss–precisely because he’s too chickensh-t to take responsibility for his own terrible judgment.

You could tell that Pentagon Pete was going to be a disaster from the start. Having never run anything successfully in his life, he was completely unequipped for the job—one of the toughest in the world. His prior track record in business was, to put it politely, undistinguished; he was coming to the Capitol from the Island of Broken Media Toys where, despite competition that consisted primarily of failed beauty queens and the kind of loudmouthed blowhards you would move far away from at a bar, he had not made the cut to be even a weekday afternoon anchor. No, he handled weekend duties, the equivalent of a military command assignment in Greenland—before it became a cool MAGA tourist destination.

Worse, we already knew what it might all mean if he ever got the kind of power he now has having read his book.

This book, The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free, essentially lays out why Hegseth had spent a chunk of his career defending and actively advocating on behalf of soldiers accused of

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