For the last 20 years, the adjective most often associated with masculinity is “toxic,” implying that men who act like men are dangerous – even deadly.

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Like the weather, everyone complains about Pentagon spending and mismanagement, but no one does anything about it. Leaders of the world’s most expensive military have refused to conduct or failed to complete every internal financial audit since Congress first demanded such accountability in the 1990s. The Department of Defense owns over 70% of the nation’s assets and can’t account for half of them. In fairness, military brass has had plenty of enablers in its failures to tame wild and sometimes blindfolded spending, with a special boost from political leaders who consistently block reform.

Not only was President Biden “grossly incompetent,” Donald Trump often complained while out of office, but his successor was a poor leader who refused to hold his own team accountable. “Nobody ever gets fired,” Trump said during a Fox and Friends interview last September. “They don't fire anybody.”