Hegseth personifies Trump's "thuggish, sycophantic, Islamaphobic, power-drunk administration."He's "not a fringe figure. Militarism, civilizational arrogance, & Crusader fantasies are.. at the center of power.""Boastful, taunting, & intoxicated by violence, Hegseth claims a divinely-sanctioned mandate to kill anyone who does not align with his White Christian nationalist dogma [&] Zionist agenda."https://www.juancole.com/2026/03/secretary-hegseths-christian.html#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #ChristianNationalism #Zionism #Islamophobia .