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Democrat Attacks on Hegseth Run Deeper Than Policy Disputes
By Robert Knight
Other than President Donald Trump, the man most hated by Democrats in America is probably Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
Since he took over the Pentagon in January 2025, he’s done everything a person could do to tick off the leftist-dominated party and its media enablers.
He quickly put an end to DEI mandates, banned transgenders from the armed forces, and created a robust military culture emphasizing duty, toughness, and excellence.
The biggest black marks in Democrats’ minds are Mr. Hegseth’s unabashed evangelical faith, initiating Bible studies at the Pentagon, and encouraging prayer.
And then there’s the U.S. armed forces’ spectacular success at destroying most of Iran’s military, including its entire navy, and crippling its nuclear program. Can’t have that, according to Democrats, who appear to be rooting for Iran to defeat the U.S.
Instead of eliminating a growing nuclear threat, they apparently think it’s smarter to keep shipping billions in cash to the terrorist regime like former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden did.
On Wednesday, House Democrats tried and failed again to pass a War Powers Resolution to stop President Trump from further military action in Iran without congressional approval.
Right now, like a punch-drunk boxer, Iran’s “Death to America” regime may well be on the ropes, with Democrats in their corner offering smelling salts and cold water.
The Trump administration’s effort to defang Iran began last June, when U.S. and Israeli forces launched strikes against Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities.
In December, Rep. Shri Thanedar, Michigan Democrat, introduced an impeachment resolution against Mr. Hegseth that accuses him of “murder and conspiracy to murder” and “reckless and unlawful mishandling of classified information.”
It died in the House Judiciary Committee.
Ms. Thanedar represents Michigan’s 13th Congressional District, which is next door to the Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s 12th District and the Muslim-majority city of Dearborn, which harbors several imams who have called for the global intifada, which means killing Jews anywhere they’re found.
Hasan Piker, a “cultural Muslim” blogger with millions of followers, has become a go-to media figure for Democrats, including New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Mr. Piker says that America deserved the 911 terrorist attacks, that the fall of the Soviet Union was “the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century” and that he prefers Hamas and Hezbollah over Israel.
He campaigned at Michigan State University on April 7 for Abdul El-Sayed, a leftist running for the U.S. Senate, and has had Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, on his program.
The Turkish-born socialist Piker obviously hates America, hates Israel, and is loved by Democrats.
Speaking of Democrats, since their first attempt at impeaching Mr. Hegseth went nowhere, they’re back at it.
Rep. Yassamin Ansari, Arizona Democrat, introduced a resolution on April 15 with several articles of impeachment, including abuse of power over the U.S. military campaign in Iran; war crimes; politicization of the armed forces; obstruction of justice, and mismanaging the Defense Department.
Meanwhile, the media never miss an opportunity to portray Mr. Hegseth in a bad light.
A front-page story in The Washington Post on March 30 made Mr. Hegseth comparable to the villainous dictators of Gilead, the fictional totalitarian regime in Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
The runover page had a large photo of Mr. Hegseth with creased eyebrows and a frown worthy of a kooky despot, along with this headline: “Hegseth’s wartime proselytizing breaks with military history.” The caption says: “Every month at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hosts evangelical services that legal experts say are unprecedented.”
Those same “experts” undoubtedly hate Arnold Friberg’s famous 1975 painting, “The Prayer at Valley Forge,” showing Gen. George Washington kneeling in the snow beside his horse to pray.
America’s first president often said faith was vital for his troops’ success. On July 20, 1775, Washington ordered “all officers and soldiers to attend Divine services.”
He issued a statement on July 2, 1776, that could easily apply to today’s war against Islamist terrorism:
“The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.”
Another Post photo shows soldiers at a Bible study at Fort Hood, Texas. It’s supposed to scare us.
Most people would find the events of Nov. 5, 2009, much more frightening. That’s when U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a military psychiatrist, opened fire on his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood after yelling “Allahu Akbar.” He killed 12, including a pregnant woman, and wounded 33.
The Obama administration first characterized the attack only as “workplace violence.”
To a growing number of Democrats, evangelical Bible studies in the armed forces are the real threat. So is America’s support for Israel.
At its spring gathering in New Orleans held April 9–11, the Democratic National Committee was racked with debate over Israel and the role of pro-Israel funders such as AIPAC, according to The Epoch Times.
A Pew Research Center survey published on April 7 found that 80 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents hold an unfavorable view of Israel.
Christians and Jews would do well to figure out who’s on their side and to vote accordingly.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on March 26, 2026. (AP in The Washington Times.)
Beware of the Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
By Robert Knight
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear appears to be readying for a presidential run in 2028.
The telegenic Democrat was on a speaking tour last year in early primary state South Carolina. In September, he has a book coming out entitled, “Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country,” a reference to Jesus’s parable of the Good Samaritan.
His publisher summarizes it this way: “By regrounding faith in compassion and kindness, he believes we can start to heal as a country.”
Compassion and kindness are God-given, but I thought we were in the midst of healing from the nightmare of the Biden years, with its promotion of atheism, illegal immigration, sexual anarchy, and attacks on Catholics and pro-lifers.
Mr. Beshear, like Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, identifies as a Christian and a moderate and gets priceless media cover while supporting the Democratic Party’s radical social and economic agenda.
In 2023, for instance, he tried to block a state bill protecting minors from “gender affirming care.”
The law prohibits doctors from subjecting gender-confused teens to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible, disfiguring surgeries.
The law also bans males from competing on girls’ sports teams. Most people think this makes sense.
Beshear insisted that such a law “would hurt kids and their families” and violate “parental rights.”
He claimed there was no evidence of widespread harm. To which I would say one butchered child is too many and that evidence of harm is voluminous, including the growing number of suicides and trans-related violence.
On the same day of Mr. Beshear’s veto, both houses of Kentucky’s Republican-controlled legislature overrode it. Naturally, a federal judge, Rebecca Grady Jennings, issued an immediate injunction halting enforcement. The case is still in litigation.
A year earlier, Ms. Jennings, one of President Donald Trump’s few clunker appointees, struck down a Kentucky law prohibiting abortions after 15 weeks and requiring medical oversight for abortion pills.
Gov. Beshear also vetoed that bill, and the legislature overrode him.
In South Carolina, which went for Mr. Trump by 30 points, Mr. Beshear emphasized his Christian faith while boasting that he was “a proud, pro-LGBTQ+ governor.”
This is a stance that ignores Jesus Christ’s clear restating of God’s creation of male and female and God’s marriage-based sexual morality from Genesis.
According to the Washington Post, Mr. Beshear said, “My faith teaches me that all children are children of God, and I didn’t want people picking on those kids.” How about protecting them from quacks who sterilize them and turn them into lifetime medical cases?
By the way, politicians love to haul out the term “children of God” like a magic amulet. The Bible says we’re all created in the image of God, but that we’re not children of God unless we believe in Him and submit to God’s authority. Until then, we’re on the other team, and I don’t mean the New Jersey Devils.
“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name,” John 1:12 says. If we’re automatically children of God, we wouldn’t need to be, as Jesus said, born again.
Anyway, Mr. Beshear is not the only wolf in sheep’s clothing. Democrats have become quite adept at using Christianese and buzzwords to fool people. President Barack Obama often gave biblical scholars heartburn over his misappropriating Jesus’s words to justify sexual sin and confiscatory redistribution of wealth.
In Texas, state Rep. James Talarico is battling hard-left U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett for the Democratic nomination for U.S. senator. Like Mr. Beshear, Mr. Talarico touts his Christian faith while cleaving to a radical agenda.
“He delivers left-wing orthodoxy in centrist packaging and fights Christian nationalism with Scripture,” the Wall Street Journal explains.
If you’re a patriotic Christian, he’s talking about you and your family as a threat to America.
Much of his rhetoric revolves around Marxist class envy, such as, “Make billionaires pay their fair share in taxes.”
During remarks opposing a bill protecting kids from transgender treatments, he said, “Jesus never once condemned transgender people.”
Well, Jesus didn’t need to, and He welcomed all repentant sinners. The Hebrew Scriptures are crystal clear on sexual morality. Sexual confusion is the province of paganism, which historically often involved child sacrifice as well.
Any comparison to the pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ Democratic Party inferred by readers at this juncture may not be coincidental.
In a 2024 interview with MSNBC, Mr. Talarico said, “Christian nationalism is dangerous. … When politicians use the Bible to push division and hate, they’re not following Jesus; they’re using His name for their own agenda.”
This is classic projection, accusing your opponents of exactly what you’re doing.
At the University of Texas on Feb. 6, Mr. Talarico said, “I’m a Christian progressive. I believe the Gospel is inherently radical—it challenges the powerful, lifts up the poor, and calls for justice in every sphere of life.”
When progressives talk about “justice” they mean “social justice.” This is envy, disguised as compassion and politicized to enable governments to redistribute income and rewrite society’s moral code.
In the first six weeks of 2026, Mr. Talarico raised $7.5 million to Ms. Crockett’s $2 million, even though she still has a lead in polls. He has raised $20 million since September.
Will Texas, like Mr. Beshear’s Kentucky, fall for a wolf in sheep’s clothing?
Gov. Andy Beshear (D-Ky.) in Frankfort, Ky. on June 8, 2025. (AP photo in The Washington Times.