{"id":22642,"date":"2026-07-10T16:12:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22642"},"modified":"2026-07-10T16:12:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:12:41","slug":"the-ramifications-of-hegseths-anti-dei-purge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22642","title":{"rendered":"The Ramifications of Hegseth\u2019s Anti-DEI Purge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump&#8217;s overzealous anti-DEI push in the military that has led to the canceling of promotions of mostly nonwhite straight males, may be hurting the military by decreasing the number of quality nonwhite straight males who want to serve in the military, as well as hurting their morale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Ramifications of Hegseth\u2019s Anti-DEI Purge\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2wDhfh6H8a8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s overzealous anti-DEI push in the military that has led to the canceling of promotions of mostly nonwhite straight males, may be hurting the military by decreasing the number of quality nonwhite straight males who want to serve in the military, as well as hurting their morale. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2wDhfh6H8a8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[162,2153,455,221,421,314,259,642,787,170,158,1280],"class_list":["post-22642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-defense","tag-dei","tag-department-of-defense","tag-donald-trump","tag-gender","tag-international-relations","tag-military","tag-race","tag-sex","tag-trump","tag-war","tag-woke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22643,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22642\/revisions\/22643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}