You might think that the graveyards of Normandy would be a poor place for Pete Hegseth (“comic book nobody”) to trot out his ideology of Aryan racial purity. You’d be right.
Simon Schama, who knows his history, sees a “special kind of loathsomeness: a blend of historical deafness, grotesque stupidity and comically ludicrous self-importance.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/07/pete-hegseth-d-day-speech-immigration-grotesque-stupidity
James Gleick
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