A photo illustration shows toy soldiers in front of Trump on a screen in the background.Cezary Kowalski/SOPA/Sipa/AP

On Sunday, former President Donald Trump posted on X a video he had debuted a few days earlier at a rally: A montage decrying the “woke” military, showing clips of Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket—a film, famously, about the dark cost to the human soul of creating a war machine—as an example of the halcyon days of a battle-hardened Army to which we must return.

WE WILL NOT HAVE A WOKE MILITARY! pic.twitter.com/zpWZhSKcEs

“WE WILL NOT HAVE A WOKE MILITARY!” Trump........

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