Extremist Republican who never served in the military wants all the generals to be purged

Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Arizona, Blake Masters, has never served in the nation’s armed forces, like the former guy who brung him to this dance. Like the former guy, Masters is sure he knows how to fix what he sees as the problem with the military—it’s “wokification.”

His solution is straight out of the Stalinist playbook: purge the generals. Because if a Republican is not going to be emulating the Nazis, they’ll go for Stalin. Any authoritarian will do.

“Your entire general class, they’re left-wing politicians at this point. It’s very hard to become a general without being some kind of left-of-center politician,” Masters said at an Apache Junction Ladies for President Trump event in August 2021. VICE News obtained the audio of his remarks. “I would love to see all the generals get fired. You take the most conservative colonels, you promote them to general. Not because the ideology is important, but because the conservative colonels will be able to leave the ideology aside. They just care about an effective fighting force.”