As someone involved in politics, it always cracks me up to see politicians play the morality card.

While not every politician is an amoral or immoral monster, many of them are and all of them are at least tangentially associated with someone who you would absolutely not want your sister to marry or even date. That’s why the confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s presumptive nominee for secretary of Defense, was nothing more than bad comedy and performance art.

Is Hegseth perfect? Of course not. In fact, he admits to being more flawed than most at some points in his life. He was even unfaithful to his first two wives. But in the time since (and there has been no evidence, testimony or allegation to the contrary), he says he found God and experienced a conversion. He became a completely different man.

No matter what your politics or religious beliefs, there is no point to life without the idea of redemption — you will forever be what you were at your lowest moment.

Curiously, Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee holding Hegseth’s confirmation hearing yesterday spent a lot of time on his prior infidelity. Thus did members of the party........

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