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Dispatch writer Nick Catoggio appears to be feeling more venom than usual. On Friday Catoggio lit into the no-explanations secrecy with which President Donald Trump and his lieutenants conduct business, particularly the quick removal of four-star Gen. Chris Donahue.<\/p>\n

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Donohue was the top Army commander in Europe who led Delta Force in battle against ISIS. As commander of the 82nd<\/sup> Airborne, Catoggio said he was also famously the last man out of Afghanistan when U.S. troops withdrew in 2021. <\/p>\n

Before his removal the Atlantic reports he was \u201cleading the service\u2019s effort to take lessons from Ukraine and apply them to future conflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot a man the military would lightly part with, one might think. He must have done something awfully bad for our defense secretary, who famously loves warfightin\u2019 warriors, to send him packing,\u201d said Catoggio. \u201c\u2026 Or maybe it simply bugged Hegseth to have someone in the chain of command as universally admired as Donahue is. It\u2019s not just a matter of jealousy (although it probably is that too). An officer as distinguished as Donahue having to answer to a cosplaying yutz who used to host Fox & Friends Weekend<\/em> only made Hegseth\u2019s yutziness more glaring by contrast to the brass, I\u2019m sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s no official explanation coming on why exactly Donohue is out \u2014 and you\u2019re not going to get one in this administration, said Catoggio.<\/p>\n

\u201c[E]lecting a figure like Trump implicitly amounts to a sort of waiver by voters of their right to accountability from their government,\u201d Catoggio said. \u201cYou don\u2019t hand power to a nationalist strongman expecting that he\u2019ll dutifully explain his thinking on policy periodically like some egghead technocrat. You do it because you don\u2019t<\/em> expect that. You trust him. Your vote is a vote of confidence in him and his instincts.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Under Trump, \u201cthe people\u2019s role in government ends on election night. (Unless the Democrats win, of course, in which case rigorous oversight going forward is a must.) The administration couldn\u2019t be any plainer about that,\u201d said Catoggio. \u201c\u2018TRUST IN TRUMP,\u2019 the official White House Twitter account declared a few weeks ago amid spiking anxiety over gas prices, going on to quote the president: “Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end – It always does!”<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s your answer as to why Chris Donahue was fired, said Catoggio. It\u2019s what Americans supposedly agreed to do in 2024, so that\u2019s all the explanation they\u2019re entitled to.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last 16 months are littered with examples of that ethos at work,\u201d Catoggio added, referring to DOGE running \u201croughshod\u201d over federal agencies with little explanation to Congress or voters about what was getting cut or why. It also explains the complete silence behind dozens of \u201coutrageous\u201d federal pardons being issued without explanation, just like Trump\u2019s \u201cLiberation Day\u201d trade war, and his disastrous war on Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven the Justice Department\u2019s files on Jeffrey Epstein, an obsession of the president\u2019s own base, would still be hidden if not for a revolt in Congress that forced their publication. MAGA fans who turned out in 2024 may have thought they were voting for transparency on Epstein by voting for the president, but that\u2019s not how postliberalism works. To Trump, they were voting to signal their absolute trust in him,\u201d said Catoggio. \u201cIf he thought they shouldn\u2019t see the Epstein material, that should have been good enough. No further explanation required.\u201d<\/p>\n

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