He is a professor of political theory and a Protestant Christian, so he is well-armed with the training and education from the great thinkers who have shaped the Free World and, in particular, the American Republic as she was intended.Ĭontrary to what some commentators conclude, Mitchell instructs that Americans have not lost their religion. Mitchell’s book, one he tells us in the acknowledgments that he wrote in the “convulsive aftermath of the 2016 election,” is a treasure of insights and diagnoses of cultural ailments and political phenomena.
Now, readers of Joshua Mitchell’s American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time would not be surprised at this (albeit, the uniformed military chastising a private citizen might still be surprising, or at least alarming). The US military-civilian-led and charged with defending the US Constitution-is perhaps the last institution that has not squandered the public trust.īut Carlson didn’t just offend the sensitivities of some servicemembers (though I’ve heard from female friends who serve that Carlson’s comments didn’t bother them one bit and that they even agreed with him, in principle) he committed a heresy of the religion of the state. Uniformed members of the military should not step into a domestic political controversy, no matter the subject or how personally offended they or someone they know is. But the military’s response communicates a change in the degree to which identity politics and “wokeism” have become a fervently held ideology, dare I say the religion of the state.
Recognizing that the biological realities of men and women are determined and unchangeable, and that they have practical implications, is unpopular, to put it mildly. No question his remarks were controversial. It’s a mockery of the US military… While China’s military becomes more masculine as it has assembled the world’s largest navy, our military needs to become, as Joe Biden says, more feminine, whatever feminine means anymore, since men and women no longer exist… Again, this is a mockery of the US military and its core mission, which is winning wars. Pregnant women are going to fight our wars.
So we’ve got new hairstyles and maternity flight suits. Popular “news” outlets denigrated his segment as sexist, and members of the military, interpreting his remarks, similarly defended the service of female military members. Instead, according to Carlson, the military became taken by matters meant to accommodate some female servicemembers. They responded to a segment in which Carlson criticized the Pentagon’s failure to doggedly focus on its primary mission: winning wars. In a remarkable abuse of their authority, the Pentagon and several senior members of the US military used their official social media accounts to chide Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson.
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