Opinion: Pete Hegseth and Trump Administration Embrace Violence

Pete Hegseth is promoting a nihilist cult of death | Jan-Werner Mueller

The Trump administration is embracing violence for the sake of violence It appears that members of Trump’s cabinet get chosen not despite their endorsements of violence, but because of them. Pete Hegseth was primarily known as a dapper TV host willing to defend war crimes. Markwayne Mullin is apparently still proud of challenging a witness to a fistfight at a Senate hearing; he also refuses to apologize for “understanding” an assault on fellow senator Rand Paul. Never before has an administra...

By Jan-Werner Müller