Trump-Fearing Republicans Give Hegseth a Major Pass

In many respects, the choice of Fox News personality Pete Hegseth to become secretary of Defense was Donald Trump’s most precedent-defying second-term Cabinet nomination given the enormous magnitude of the job, the nominee’s manifest lack of experience for it, and various concerns about his personal conduct, management capacities, and attitudes toward the diversification of the armed forces in the last few decades. As New York’s Rebecca Traister aptly predicted...