The Ops Against Pete Hegseth Are Designed To Further A Color Revolution
Pete Hegseth “runs around on a stage talking about lethality and warrior ethos and killing people. … That’s not the message that needs to come from the Secretary of Defense,” complained Sen. Mark Kelly last week.
The message, especially coming from a former Navy captain, is so bizarre it borders on satire. Nations have had organized armies since recorded history started around 3000 B.C. And, in the words of the late, great Rush Limbaugh, the whole point of having a military is to kill people and break things, even if that military is exclusively employed for defensive purposes. Surely even leftists don’t doubt that the United States military should do what militaries have always done, especially when “literal Hitlers” like Putin still hold power.
But Kelly’s message is more than just a dumb comment.
More and more evidence is accumulating that the American left does not just crave power but wants to conduct a full-scale color revolution in the United States — the seemingly legitimate overthrow of our form of government. The left has toyed with this idea for years, most obviously via op-eds calling for Supreme Court packing and the shredding of the Constitution. Especially over the last five years, however, talk has given way to action.
Writer John Zmirak offers a list of phases by which to identify a color revolution. These include discrediting a country’s leadership with claims of corruption and tyranny, coopting the military so that it will refuse legitimate orders, goading civil unrest, and terrorizing the regime’s supporters. All these steps have already happened here.
Every time the left compares Trump, ICE, or anyone on the right to fascists, Nazis, or the Gestapo is an act of delegitimization. The so-called “Seditious Six” hinted at the military to disobey lawful orders. Thugs burned down American cities and were bailed out of jail by a future vice president of the United States. Meanwhile, parents protesting pornography in middle school libraries, pro-life activists, and Republican lawmakers were treated as public enemy No. 1.
Seen this way, Kelly’s message is not the usual insanity but a progression of the color revolution. As Kurt Schlichter pointed out, a proud American military dedicated to the country and her founding principles would probably stop any attempted color revolution cold. Very few leftist agitators would want to participate in the overthrow of our republic if they had to face a patriotic, spirited military force. It makes sense, then, that the left is trying to suck that warrior spirit out of the military and turn the armed forces into a perpetual DEI meeting. Former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden both did this, promoting woke officers and purging conservatives.
Abraham Lincoln supposedly said, “Do I not destroy my enemies by making them my friends?” The left has taken this a step further; it wants to destroy its enemy by making it a mirror image of itself.
But Kelly and his ilk want to destroy not just the warrior ethos of the military but the warrior ethos of the entire country.
We usually don’t think of Americans as a warrior people. Even if they weren’t soldiers, though, the Puritans, settlers, farmers, whalers, pioneers, railroad men, miners, cowboys, and inventors who built America were certainly warriors in the sense that German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer writes about:
In this world, where the game is played with loaded dice, a man must have a temper of iron, with armor proof to the blows of fate, and weapons to make his way against men. Life is one long battle; we have to fight at every step; and Voltaire very rightly says that if we succeed, it is at the point of a sword, and that we die with the weapon in our hand.
Americans have always been warriors. They understood that they had been born to boldly struggle against long odds. America, from the settlements of Jamestown and Plymouth to the Revolution and onward through Westward expansion to the present day, is the story of long odds and people willing to play them.
This is the spirit Mark Kelly and the left are working to extinguish, and if the collective response to government power grabs made in the name of Covid-19 is any indication, they’re succeeding. They have two basic reasons for doing it. First, because it is yet another way to remove us from our heritage. The left fears history — it’s why leftists pour so much money and energy into rewriting it.
The second follows from the first. Before the Revolution, there were no professional American soldiers. Every town and farm defended itself. Even with the start of the Revolution, the first Americans to engage the British were the Minutemen. The left knows that even if the warrior ethos could be drained from the American military, a warrior spirit left in even a remnant of the people would be dangerous. So the professional warriors must be castrated to set an example for the rest of us.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/08/the-ops-against-pete-hegseth-are-designed-to-further-a-color-revolution/
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