Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary?

The title of this is supposed to be just a perverse joke - we hope.

The last member of an informal alliance of top Trump officials with enough swat or stature to stand up to President Trump — the Committee to Save America, as we called these officials 16 months ago — resigned in epic fashion.

The bottom line: Unlike most others, who pretended to leave on fine terms, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis bailed with a sharp, specific, stinging rebuke of Trump and his America-first worldview...

It was a historic letter and a historic moment capping a historic day, one you could easily see filling a full chapter of future books on the Trump presidency. The wheels felt like they were coming off the White House before Mattis quit. - Axios 

The thing is, Traitor Trump has already made a practice of appointing people just because he pretty much mindlessly likes what they’ve had to say on TV. Like Larry Kudlow and Heather Nauert. So there is precedent.

Hegseth's Minnesota connection is that he’s from here, and ran for the GOP Senate nomination here in 2012. He’s since become a major Fox idiot - Trump's kind of idiot. Birds of a feather.

(BTW: "Mattis was no Shining Knight," from Informed Comment, here.)