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I noticed some not fully idiotic people on Twitter are praising Hegseth.
That seems ludicrous considering the overt stupidity and incompetence among other things, but bear with me - there's a reason.
Consider this: The status quo is a set of compromises. These compromises have upsides and downsides. Many (maybe all) of these compromises are suboptimal.
Now imagine you're a zealot regarding a single issue or a handful of issues. You're vehemently opposed to the downsides of certain compromises and you may actually be correct about that, too. Being a zealot, you apply a tunnel vision. The things you care the most about get weighted like 95%, all else 5% - at least until something terrible happens to you or people whom you love.
Then there's Hegseth acting as wrecking ball against decency and integrity, wrecking some of those compromises without replacing them with better compromises.
The tunnel vision guy that you are notices that Hegseth wrecked compromises that caused downsides that you zealously hate and campaigned against. You apply the issue weighing of 95% and suddenly Hegseth looks like the saviour to you.
Meanwhile, people who pay attention at a more wide angle easily see that Hegseth is worse than even the warmonger Rumsfeld, who deservedly burns in hell right now.
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