<![CDATA[A controversial case that has lit up the sade vacante media recently involves President-Elect Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, whom the Democrat Left denounces as a white nationalist, a far-right extremist, and domestic terror threat, thanks in part to a tattoo he bears of the inscription Deus Vult (God wills it), and of the Jerusalem cross, which Hegseth explains “was part of the coat of arms after AD 1203 and the 104 [sic] reign of the Jerusalem Kingdom.” In the Left’s meticulously curated narrative, this renders Hegseth not only unsuitable for office but a terrorist threat to the security of the nation. He is white and he is Christian and is therefore persona non grata, an enemy of the people, a colonial exploiter, a racist, an Islamophobe, a fascist, and a hater.]]>