Trump treats violence as performance.
Hegseth treats it as liturgy.
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Trump is the showman, marveling at the hardware, basking in the imagery, turning state violence into another prop in his ongoing pageant of self-worship.
Hegseth is the chaplain of the blast radius, coating the same violence in the language of providence and holy struggle.
One is a narcissist drooling over the bomb bay doors; the other is there to inform us that heaven is apparently very impressed.
Put them together and you get something worse than ordinary militarism.
You get militarism with a grin and a benediction.