Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the media team at the Department of Defense would like you to know, is loved by the troops. ⁠ ⁠ He’s loved by the Green Berets and the SEALs. He’s loved by the Naval Academy cadets and future Marine Corps officers. He’s loved by the troops at Gitmo—though, of course, CNN’s “anonymous sources” won’t tell you that. And the reason is simple: He shakes every single one of their hands. He throws footballs with them. And, most importantly, he does “P.T.” with them. Lots and lots of P.T. ⁠ ⁠ “A recurring theme of the DoD Rapid Response and other Pentagon public affairs accounts is that Hegseth is finally restoring prestige to an American military that had been degraded and victimized by the woke, D.E.I. policies of the Biden administration,” Puck’s Julia Ioffe writes. “But following these accounts, it becomes clear that it’s not the military’s reputation they’re restoring, but Hegseth’s.”⁠ ⁠ Julia examines the Hegseth propaganda machine, at the link in bio.⁠...