Democrats denigrated the U.S. military by framing the armed forces as plagued by “white supremacy” and “white nationalism,” noted Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) in an interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.
Good recalled remarks Democrats made on the House floor regarding retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin’s confirmation hearings for the position of defense secretary. Democrats described Austin’s race as relevant to his heading of the Pentagon.
Good stated, “Democrats said on the House floor that because of the white supremacy problem within our military, because of white nationalism in our military, because of these racist hate groups that dominate our military, we’ve got to appoint an African-American to secretary of defense to bring diversity and inclusion leadership into the military.”
“The military is one of the most diverse components of our society,” Good added. “It was ahead in diversity going back decades, and to smear and besmirch the integrity of our military as a justification for an appointment that the president wanted to make, that was said on the House floor by the Democrat Party just this past week. How terrible their view of our military.”
The Senate voted 69-27 on Thursday to pass a waiver for Austin to the law requiring defense secretaries be retired for more than seven years. Austin retired from the military in 2016.