Senate Democrats are reportedly proposing legal changes aimed at requiring women to register for the military draft.
So what
Gender ideology appears to have nudged Democrats another step closer to becoming the more hawkish of the two U.S. political parties.
What happened
Senate Armed Services Chair Jack Reed, D-R.I., has drafted a “sweeping rewrite of the military draft laws aimed at requiring women to register for the Selective Service System,” Politico reported Monday.
Data point
As former President Donald Trump pursued his “America First” foreign policy, Democrats shrugged off their Obama-era dovishness in favor of “forever wars.”
- Fifty-nine percent of Democratic voters backed a continued U.S. military presence in Syria and almost half opposed withdrawal from Afghanistan, per a 2019 poll.
Same energy
The CIA released a recruiting video in April featuring a CIA officer who identified as a Latina “cisgender millennial who’s been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder” and refuses “to internalize misguided patriarchal ideas of what a woman can or should be.”
