By my reading, you spoke of the commander gathering in what dudalb responded to and gave no supposition about why. dudalb's response doesn't really address your post at all, which makes it odd that he would even include the quote of your post. Thus, it's a bit off to respond to dudalb's post as if he was actually addressing yours. Flo was speaking about something notably different, on the other hand - her post refers more to the people in positions around Trump like Miller and how they're more interested in pushing their nefarious agendas than in reining Trump in, in part because Trump's insanity makes pushing their nefarious agendas much easier. dudalb's response did directly address what Flo said, on the other hand. Personally, I'm much more on Flo's side here. The people like Miller are pushing nefarious agendas. Blind party loyalty may well apply much more further down the line, of course, but not so much to the limited group of people that Flo was referring to. To wrap this around to Hegseth, of course, blind party loyalty would probably be sorta weird to apply and nefarious agendas may well not apply. Hegseth can likely be explained more with incompetence, idiocy, and trying to keep appearing sufficiently loyal to Trump to keep the job. I get a vibe that's more like a incompetent idiot who managed to get into middle management by using backstabbing office politics and sycophantic words to sway the boss. Attributing either party loyalty or nefarious schemes to someone like that is a bit off, in my opinion.
