The Fort Bragg Bait and Switch

Trump and Pete Hegseth are so committed to maintaining white supremacy that they restored the military base’s previous name, which honored a Confederate general — but there’s a twist.

Feb 14, 2025

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"This is just a reminder that one of the things Pete Hegseth did when he first got his job was go through the Army rolls ledgers and find an honored soldier with the last name Bragg so he could use them as a proxy for fulfilling a promise to restore the name of a racist to one of our country's army bases. "

- monique judge

Imagine being so wedded to whiteness, white supremacy and racism that you go out of your way to circumvent a law that prohibits you from naming a military base after members of the Confederacy.

In case you missed it, Pete Hegseth — Trump’s new secretary of defense — signed a memo Monday that changed the name of Fort Liberty back to …

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