Each of its appearances, in highly visible public arenas such as Times Square in New York City and Discovery Green in Houston, was something between a political rally, a Christian tent revival, and a college-football tailgate party. Music pulsated from the sound system, hands were held aloft in praise, and speakers assured the crowd that they were a righteous silent majority, fed up and ready to roar.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth joined forces with one of social media's most vitriolic anti-trans campaigners last week to drum a Navy Commander out of the service over her support for transgender healthcare. It was a one-two punch from Hegseth in service of the president's crusade against "woke" ideology and transgender people in the federal government and American society at large.
➡️ Things took a weird and annoying turn in today's top stories, starting with Log Cabin Republicans attending a Kennedy Center concert just to heckle a musician who criticizes Trump. Pete Buttigieg had an appropriate response to Tucker Carlson claiming he's not really gay, and a Moms for Liberty chair stripped down to her underwear at a school board meeting to make LGBTQ+ people look bad (somehow).