The Glorious Return of Military Darwinism

There are bad ideas, and then there are ideas so catastrophically, historically illiterate that they feel like they were drafted on a cocktail napkin somewhere between the third Old Fashioned and a lobotomy. 

Enter Pete Hegseth’s latest brainwave: making flu vaccines optional for members of the United States military.

Optional.

In the military.

Yes, the same institution that regulates the angle of your shoelaces, the exact geometry of your haircut, and the moral alignment of your socks now apparently draws the line at… vaccines.