# The Real Story from DataRepublican

- Link: https://kendreger.com/?p=913
- Published: 2026-11-10T21:52:42+07:00
- Author: ken

**THEY’RE NOT IMPEACHING HEGSETH FOR WAR POWERS: THEY’RE REMOVING THE ONE MAN WHO
BLOCKS A COLOR REVOLUTION. **

Pete Hegseth called Thomas Massie’s impeachment push exactly what it is: “a political
spectacle, a personal manifesto driven by ego and resentment. It’s a farce, and 
it’s a stunt, and everybody knows it.”

[@DataRepublican](https://x.com/DataRepublican) has documented the playbook for 
months. In her April thread, she wrote: “The true reason Pete Hegseth is being targeted
is because he’s standing between President Trump and a coup. They didn’t go after
him because of drinking. They didn’t go after him because of women. They went after
him because every color revolution manual ever written says the same thing: you 
cannot topple a government unless the security forces defect. And a loyal Secretary
of Defense is the one person who makes sure they don’t.” She continued: “This is
not my theory. This is theirs. Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan—the two most cited
scholars in the color revolution field—studied 323 regime change campaigns. Their
finding: Security force defections make campaigns FORTY-SIX TIMES more likely to
succeed.” She highlighted their own materials: “The ‘Democracy Playbook 2025’ — 
the same document that teaches ‘dealing with security forces’ and color revolution
case studies — cites this in footnote 49: ‘Pete Hegseth had been flagged by fellow
service member as possible ‘Insider Threat’’ — AP, November 15, 2024. 72 hours after
his nomination. In a regime change manual.” On why the system treats him differently
from others: “The color revolution playbook has one tool for security forces: social
pressure through professional networks to induce defection. Driscoll is embedded
in those networks. He can be pulled away. Hegseth isn’t. He was never attached. 
The system can’t co-opt him… so its only option is removal. That’s why Driscoll 
gets 16 Democratic votes and puff pieces. That’s why Hegseth gets grand juries.”
In November she tied the current push directly to the strategy: “HEGSETH’S IMPEACHMENT
IS THE TROJAN HORSE. TRUMP IS THE REAL TARGET. … Six of eight articles are premised
on that President Trump himself issued illegal orders. … The goal of removing Hegseth
has always been to remove Trump from office. Hegseth is the opening move. His entire
downstream chain of command will be next.” She also stated: “Setting up [@PeteHegseth ](https://x.com/PeteHegseth)
as scapegoat is one of them” (the few things that make her go scorched earth), and
noted that “the military is subordinate to civilian control. Hegseth destroyed Iran’s
military and did so magnificently. Hegseth is not in any reason, shape, or form 
responsible for carrying out Iran in the first place.” POX OPINION: Massie’s lame-
duck privileged resolution is the latest legal pressure in that sequence. Democrats
have signaled support. The timing is the midterm aftermath. Remove or cripple the
Secretary of War who keeps the military following lawful civilian orders, and the
playbook’s key precondition is met.

**OPINION: Until we remove all of the RHINOS from the right we will continue to 
have people like this willing to tear the party apart. **