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With support for a Confederate monument, Pete Hegseth’s culture war crusade intensifies The secretary might claim to be “laser-focused” on fighting wars, but his record suggests he’s far more interested in fighting the culture wars.

Aug. 7, 2025, 12:46 PM EDT

By Steve Benen

Albert Pike was a Confederate leader who fought to protect slavery, and according to some critics, he even joined the Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War. When Black Lives Matter protests broke out in the nation’s capital in 2020, a statue honoring Pike was torn down and set on fire.

Five years later, the Trump administration, which has been quite eager in recent months to restore symbols related to Confederate forces that took up arms against the United States, announced that the statue celebratin

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