‘True Believer’ Joint Chiefs Chairman Will Hurt the Military › American Greatness
Christopher Roach
The military’s entry into the culture wars remains an important development. Until recently, the military was officially apolitical, in keeping with the constitutional requirements for a civilian commander-in-chief. In the 1990s, the military became more aligned with the Republican Party, and many commentators expressed legitimate concerns about this development. The pendulum swung-back after George W. Bush’s disastrous performance in Iraq, and things mostly balanced out by the time Obama took the reins.
Trump proved to be a catalyst for a new type of friction. Washington D.C. proved to be allergic to Trump from the very beginning. His style, his goals, and his contempt for the government class’s pretentions all rankled the permanent bureaucracy.
Every government institution resisted him: the Department of Justice, the courts, the intelligence community, low-level staffers, and even the military leadership. The last part was unusual. But, for them, it appeared to be a situation not of complete rejection of civilian control, but of careerists choosing to endear themselves to the Congress and the permanent bureaucracy over some temporary occupant of the Oval Office.
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