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Wow, this is really a shot across the bow in the culture wars.
Hegseth directs Navy to rename USNS Harvey Milk days into Pride Month
Renaming a ship for any reason is a fairly phenomenal thing to do, something no doubt on the minds of those who named the ship after Milk in the first place. It had an element of permanence, and was part of an effort to create acceptance for homosexuals.
Hegseth's actions, and these aren't the only recent ones (we were actually going to make the next in this series on another one of them) are really sending a signal of where the DoD is headed. But the question ultimately will be is any of this permanent? And also, how far does he intend to go? I don't think, at this point, that anyone has thought that the DoD would reverse its position on allowing homosexuals to serve in the military, and it shouldn't reverse it, all of which makes this so surprising.
National Conservatives and Christian Nationalists hope the changes will be permanent, but Trump is losing steam pretty clearly, and the host of other issues, particularly the "size of government" and budgetary ones, are now in pretty stormy seas. In order to make cultural changes really stick, they need more than four years, probably more than eight. Hegseth, in the DoD is picking up steam, maybe aware of that, but where this all goes will be interesting to watch.
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