Woke Noonan Takes Cheap Shot at Hegseth

Peggy Noonan again betrays either her bias or naiveté in parroting Dems’ talking points about Trump & his cabinet. Consider her column on DOD Sec Hegseth’s supposedly “insane” 8% per yr budget cut proposal while working with DOGE to cut waste by up to 20%.

When I do the math, Hegseth’s goal sounds plausible & to call it “insane” is, well, goofy as in “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Yet, in another recent column titled, “A Stiff Drink From the Trump Fire Hose,” Ms. Noonan starts out throwing a bone to Nos. 45 & 47, then, quickly launches into what South Side of Chicago Democrats call a “well placed crotch kick.” To wit: “Some of [Team Trump’s] actions are exhilarating. Some of them make you ask: Are these people clinically insane?” James Carville couldn’t have said it better and that’s become too consistently noticeable in Noonan’s “thought” pieces in the WSJ.

In this instance, Noonan singled out Sec. Hegseth to supposedly demonstrate “The most charitable gloss on the administration style.” Her charity goes on to suggest we kindly forgive Hegseth [and other Trump loyalists] for “simply riding high and have grown full of themselves, as opposed to clinically insane.” Thanks, Peg. The most charitable gloss on your journalistic style is that years of expressing dirty thoughts from the safety of the editorial page has made you full of yourself, as opposed to clinically woke.

Davd Soul