Fox News political commentator Pete Hegseth has been tapped for the United States Secretary of Defense > Matt Gaetz for Attorney General > and Tulsi Gabbard for National Intelligence. From Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin all were born at the very cusp of Generation Y (1980-1996) the official Arc de Triomphe of the Millennials.

Loyal to and in-service of America’s most notorious Baby Boomer (1946-1964), Millennials in warp speed are being anointed in Washington to dismantle bureaucracy, cut regulations, restructure agencies; and to engage the real world to advise and guide their new Department of Government Efficiency.

Presenting in post-World War II American society, FDR’s New Deal opened the coffers of government endowments to ignite a generation of small business competitors to offset economic austerity. The Baby Boomers were work-centric, self-assertive, career-focused workaholics who’re now aging out. They represent only 15% of the labor force, and ‘old age’ was a pivotal factor in the 2024 U.S. presidential race.

Enter Generation Y: These are they who came of age along side the internet; were the first to adopt social media; are better educated than their predecessors; and have inherited more back-to-back economic recessions than any generation in history. They’re tech savvy, progressive, and civic minded. They marry later (28-30); and 1 in 4 have yet to marry at all. They’re the largest living adult population in the United States, and were the majority voters in Election 2024.

That they’re marching on Washington — each and all with a cleaver of administrative power for which they 're woefully unprepared — warns us that the die is cast. The wild horse that bolted isn’t a 78-year old convicted felon but rather his handlers; veering from the conventional wisdom if toward the nation's experiment with democracy.

DOGE

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has named Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk to spearhead a more efficient government with a new presidential advisory commission that will sit comfortably outside the federal executive department. Trump explains that Musk and Ramaswamy "will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies."

Two billionaires who gave generously to his presidential campaign, Musk and Ramaswamy will co-lead a long-held Republican advisory initiative to "provide advice and guidance from outside of government" that won't require approval from the U.S. Congress. The advisors will have a fast pass between the White House and Office of Management & Budget to "create an entrepreneurial approach to government never seen before." Ramaswamy says, "This may sound trite, but entrepreneurship is the fabric of America."

However, Musk not only knows nothing about government efficiency and regulation, his own businesses have regularly run afoul of the very rules he will be in position to attack in his new ‘czar’ position. In August, Musk and Tesla won the dismissal of a federal lawsuit accusing them of defrauding investors by hyping dogecoin and conducting insider trading, causing billions of dollars of losses. Dogecoin has more than doubled since Election Day, tracking a surge in cryptocurrency markets on expectations of a softer regulatory ride under a Trump administration. Shares in Tesla fell on Wall Street ahead of the announcement but are up about 30% since the election.

In his 2021 bestseller "Woke, Inc: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam,” Ramaswamy makes the case that politics has no place in business, and sets out a new vision for the future of American capitalism. This Harvard Political Union president > Yale legal scholar > hedge fund conseiller at Goldman Sachs and biotech billionaire mastered the industrial complex by manipulating power structures to exploit market capitalism. A first generation American, the Ramaswamys of India bear witness to the liberalization of socialist economics.

War on Warriors

The United States Secretary of Defense nominee alights on The Shawn Ryan show: “I’m straight up just saying that we should not have women in combat roles — it hasn’t made us more effective, hasn’t made us more lethal, has made fighting more complicated.” Sidebar: women represent over 1/4 million active duty military in the United States and are among the ranks of Green Berets and Army Rangers.

Hegseth — an infantry officer in the Minnesota National Guard (2003-2021) — has served as a platoon leader in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay for which he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. He accompanied the National Guard as a senior counterinsurgency instructor at the Counterinsurgency Training Center in Kabul.

Thereafter, he was promoted to the rank of major and even volunteered for active duty to protect the inauguration of President Joe Biden on 20 January 2021. However, he was removed from that mission due to "links to right-wing militia groups, and posting extremist views online.”

“I was deemed an extremist because of a tattoo ― by my National Guard unit in Washington, D.C.,” Hegseth said on “The Shawn Ryan Show” podcast this summer. “My orders were revoked to guard the Biden inauguration.”

A graduate from Princeton University and Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Hegseth joined Fox News as a contributor in 2014; concurrently served as the executive director for Concerned Veterans for America; and is the author of four books wherein he opines on principle upon his service in the National Guard. However, the most interesting of his many missives is the chilling forward he penned for Nick Adams’ “The Case of the Establishment.” In the era of Donald J. Trump, 45th president of the United States, a modern-day civil war was raging. Hegseth reprises the sentiment on the “Shawn Ryan Show.”

First of all, you’ve got to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and any general, any admiral, whatever, who was involved in diversity, equity and inclusion programs or “woke s---” has “got to go.

Five men held the post of President Trump’s Defense Secretary during his first administration; a day and time when seemingly impulsive tweets confounded the military industrial complex. Though many of the generals in his first administration — both on active duty and retired — have since criticized his tenure in the Oval Office, it may be worth comparing Hegseth and his remit to oversee 1.3 million active-duty service members with a nod to Dee Dee Myers and President Bill Clinton.

We knew her, dear readers, rather well. And can share that the youngest and arguably least qualified White House Press Security in the nation’s history may've been positioned as a decoy. Clinton intended to do his own press in what he called weekly “Town Halls,” and by pushing youth and inexperience to the pulpit was able to single-handedly control the narrative, communicate directly with world leaders, and grip the nation’s foreign policy with a diplomacy tactic called trade.