Defense secretary pick said in 2020 that should Democrats win election the military ‘will be forced to make a choice’
Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, has written in a book that he could imagine a scenario in which the US armed forces would be used violently in American domestic politics.
Hegseth, a former elite soldier turned rightwing Fox television personality, is Trump’s choice to lead the Pentagon which controls the gigantic American military – by far the largest armed force in the world.
Our new book, ‘The Great Right North,’ takes a close look at how extremism is progressing in our national discourse.
In early 2022, thousands of Canadians descended on Ottawa as part of the so-called “Freedom Convoy” in protest of the government’s pandemic-related restrictions. Many were opposed to the government’s power to impose lockdowns, masking and vaccine mandates.
Wittingly or not, they were also taking part in a vast communications effort from various groups and individuals on the far right.
