longer, according to pete williams. it was an issue when it first came up during the obama administration, but since then the controversy surrounding it had died down. the pentagon seemed, the military seemed to figure out a way to work with this. it wasn t an issue. work with transgender soldiers. why do you think the president made it an issue again? you know, it really enflames his base to sort of see progressive movements, right? i m going to use that term sort of leisurely, not concretely. it really enflames his base. they get angry about things that are considered equity for other people. it attacks those fundamental issues of how our country is built. if we don t understand our historic implications of our culture, if we don t understand the documents of discovery, if we don t understand manifest destiny, we don t understand the pay tree y patriarchy. that impacts how we move as military systems, how we interact with each other, the