Pete Hegseth expresses admiration in podcast series for authoritarian beliefs promoted by far-right Idaho pastor<\/p>\n
In a series of newly unearthed podcasts, Pete Hegseth<\/a>, Donald Trump\u2019s pick for defense secretary, appears to endorse the theocratic and authoritarian<\/a> doctrine of \u201csphere sovereignty\u201d, a worldview derived from the extremist beliefs of Christian reconstructionism<\/a> (CR) and espoused by churches aligned with far-right Idaho pastor Douglas Wilson.<\/p>\n In the recordings, Hegeth rails against \u201ccultural Marxism\u201d, feminism, \u201ccritical race theory\u201d, and even democracy itself, which he says \u201cour founders blatantly rejected as being completely dangerous\u201d.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pete Hegseth expresses admiration in podcast series for authoritarian beliefs promoted by far-right Idaho pastor In a series of newly unearthed podcasts, Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump\u2019s pick for defense secretary, appears to endorse the theocratic and authoritarian doctrine of \u201csphere sovereignty\u201d, a worldview derived from the extremist beliefs of Christian reconstructionism (CR) and espoused by … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}