Pete Hegseth’s American Apocalypse

JGALUN · Jul 16, 2026
The Secretary of Defense believes violent, anti-democratic fantasies about an imminent national apocalypse, in which using force against his fellow Americans is not only justified but essential to stave off national suicide.
Pete Hegseth
Unless we undo that foundational damage, nothing we do in public schools will change our course toward tyranny and thought control.
Hegseth, Pete, and David Goodwin. Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation (New York, NY: Broadside Books, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2022)
Pete Hegseth
That's where we are today: we win or the leftists win, we lose or they lose. And if we win, America can win. If the Left wins, America is going to be lost.
Hegseth, Pete. American Crusade: Our Fight to Stay Free (New York: Center Street, 2020), 37.
Pete Hegseth
But if Trump loses in 2020, I fear America is doomed. The Democrats-on track to nominate a radical leftist-would complete the political domination they already maintain in our culture, media, and schoolhouses.
Hegseth, Pete. American Crusade: Our Fight to Stay Free (New York: Center Street, 2020), 35-6.
Pete Hegseth
At this point—245 years after our revolution-every time Republicans embrace the trappings of process, conventional wisdom, moderation, and compromise, we accelerate the death of America.
Hegseth, Pete. American Crusade: Our Fight to Stay Free (New York: Center Street, 2020), 35.
Pete Hegseth
You might be thinking, "Pete, you laid this out in pretty simple terms. Us versus them. America versus the Left. Good versus evil. You're overplaying your hand. It's not that bad." Read on, and think again.
Hegseth, Pete. American Crusade: Our Fight to Stay Free (New York: Center Street, 2020), 61.
Pete Hegseth
Our country is upside down, and the Marxists are looking to finish us off. That family back in North Carolina, the ones who got me started on this project, got out of the kill zone. They got me out of the kill zone. And now it’s time for you to do the same. Will you?
Hegseth, Pete, and David Goodwin. Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation (New York, NY: Broadside Books, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2022)
Pete Hegseth
The classroom is our battlefield, the hearts and minds of our kids the prize. The very survival of the American Republic, and the greatness of Western civilization, are at stake. And, right now, we are losing. The Cultural Marxist Paideia has seized the commanding heights.
Hegseth, Pete, and David Goodwin. Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation (New York, NY: Broadside Books, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2022)
Pete Hegseth
This book comes at a moment— and I write this without hyperbole— that we should be in panic mode. Almost desperate. Willing to do anything necessary to defeat the "fundamental transformation" of the American military and end the war on our warriors.
Hegseth, Pete. The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free (New York: Fox News Books, 2024), 5.
Pete Hegseth
I think our biggest threat is internal. I think it's, I think we're committing cultural suicide and we've lost complete focus on the basics and building blocks of what made Western civilization in America exceptional… we're going to have to fight for all of these other things…if you don't we're in totally uncharted territory where we're trying to keep a republic, keep a country.
Pete Hegseth
Our future existence as sons and daughters of freedom requires the satisfaction of a single paramount objective: the categorical defeat of the Left. America cannot, and will not, survive otherwise.

This time in our history calls for an AMERICAN CRUSADE. Yes, a holy war for the righteous cause of human freedom.
Hegseth, Pete. American Crusade: Our Fight to Stay Free (New York: Center Street, 2020), 1-2.
Pete Hegseth
It is motivating to picture what the future could look like, but right now, we are in a firefight. We are pinned down, caught in an enemy near ambush. The enemy has the high ground and is shooting from concealed and fortified positions. We are on the “X,” in the kill zone. Our families, our kids, our country, and our faith are in the crosshairs. We can talk strategy all we want, but our reality right now is tactical. Hand-to-hand combat, face-to-face.
Hegseth, Pete, and David Goodwin. Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation (New York, NY: Broadside Books, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2022)
Pete Hegseth
The prospect of losing the 2020 election— and its aftermath-makes me shudder…Socialism will suffocate our economy and bankrupt America-in one generation… Leftism will enslave us all with big government until it's enslaved by Islamism… Communist China will rise-and rule the globe. Europe will formally surrender. Islamists will get nuclear weapons and seek to wipe America and Israel off the map…America will decline and die. A national divorce will ensue… This is not fiction, this is a preview…If our American Crusade does not succeed, not only will America be gone but human freedom will be finished.
Hegseth, Pete. American Crusade: Our Fight to Stay Free (New York: Center Street, 2020), 299.
Pete Hegseth
The fate of freedom is what is at stake in the 2020 election. The immediate years that follow will, once and for all, determine whether the American experiment in human freedom-the America of our founding-will die, get a national divorce based on irreconcilable cultural and political divisions, or return to its founding principles.

The hour is late for America. Beyond political success, her fate relies on exorcising the leftist specter dominating education, religion, and culture—a 360-degree holy war for the righteous cause of human freedom.
Hegseth, Pete. American Crusade: Our Fight to Stay Free (New York: Center Street, 2020), 14.
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