How the Army Is Getting Below-Standards Recruits to the Starting Line

I’ve written before about preference cascades – where large portions of the public, often a majority, conceal their views for fear of punishment, only to reveal those views when some precipitating event takes place. Classic examples include the fall of Communist regimes, like Ceausescu’s Romania, where even Ceausescu himself thought everyone loved him until shortly before he was stood in front of a wall and shot.

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Democrats are once again failing to meet the moment and risk being behind the times – something that will hurt them ahead of the 2026 midterms.