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Back Porch Files: The Secretary of Defense Has a Favorite Pastor, and It’s Not Good
In this edition of Back Porch Files, we dive into the unsettling alliance between Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and his ideological North Star, Pastor Doug Wilson of Moscow, Idaho. Wilson — a Christian nationalist who has defended slavery, rejected women’s political rights, and preached patriarchal rule — has become one of Hegseth’s most-admired figures. And that devotion isn’t just creepy; it’s dangerous. We unpack who Wilson is, why Hegseth idolizes him, how that worldview is bleeding into the Pentagon, and why putting a culture-war crusader with a volatile past in charge of the U.S…
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