ideologies

In its neglect, it unwittingly allowed the floodgates of far-right rhetoric to burst open, giving a voice and platform to ideologies that once lingered in the corners of society.

Hegseth, who has questioned whether women should be allowed to serve in combat, rails in the book against “diverse recruits, pumped full of vaccines and even more poisonous ideologies.”

Registrars in at least 12 counties also reported receiving “cease and desist” letters from members of New California State, a group seeking to split the state along rural versus urban political ideologies.

Experts say such claims are unsupported and give fuel to extremist ideologies, such as the so-called great replacement theory, a racist conspiracy that there’s a plot to reduce the population of white people.

But they see the candidates’ ideologies through different lenses.