Pete Hegseth Thinks Women Shouldn't Vote

A pastor calls for repealing women’s right to vote. Trump’s Defense Secretary agrees.

Satirical edit from The Onion

The Defense Secretary of the United States just endorsed a pastor who says women should not be allowed to vote.

This is not a fringe blogger in the dark corners of the internet. This is Pete Hegseth, the man in charge of the world’s most powerful military. He reposted a video from a Christian nationalist pastor calling for the repeal of the 19th Amendment, the constitutional protection of women’s right to vote. And he did it on his government verified account. I showed the whole tape in my YouTube video.

Let me be clear. This is not some vague wink to an extremist movement. This is open endorsement. The pastor in the video says outright that women should not vote, that households should be represented by a male head, and that women should submit to male authority in both church and government. Pete Hegseth responded with “All of Christ for all of life.”

Think about what that means. The person who can command our military is aligning himself with a movement that wants to strip away a century of women’s rights. This is the same man Donald Trump handpicked from Fox News, despite a record of alcohol abuse and no serious experience in the Pentagon before being handed the top job.

If you want to understand how far the United States has fallen into authoritarianism, this is it. The top ranks of our military are now parroting the rhetoric of Christian theocracy. The idea that women should be second-class citizens is not being whispered in private meetings. It is being blasted on social media by people with the authority to send troops into combat.

This is not happening in isolation. The same administration that put Hegseth in power is stacked with people who act on emotion, ignore transparency, and in some cases have been linked to the January 6 insurrection. Trump surrounds himself with loyalists who will push the most extreme ideas if it helps him hold power. If repealing women’s right to vote secured his position, do you really think he would fight against it?

The hypocrisy is staggering. For decades Republicans claimed women were too emotional for leadership. Now the most emotional, irrational, and impulsive figures in American politics are men like Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth. They are the ones declaring trade wars out of spite, mobilizing nuclear submarines over personal insults, and melting down in front of cameras.

This is why I am calling this out. If we normalize this rhetoric, we open the door to rolling back not just voting rights, but the entire framework of equal protection under the law. Authoritarianism always starts with targeting the rights of those in the minority or those with less power. Once it begins, it rarely stops where it started.

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We cannot afford to look away. The people in power are telling us exactly what they plan to do. The only question is whether we will stop them before it becomes reality.