A Fight Over a West Point Job Reveals Two Visions of America Under Trump
Jen Easterly, who had served in Republican and Democratic administrations, was headed to the academy. Then a right-wing activist stepped in.

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Laura Loomer Attack on West Point Appointee Reflects Larger Fight Over Trump
“… Over three decades, Ms. Easterly, 57, had compiled an impeccable résumé as a West Point graduate, a Rhodes Scholar and an Afghanistan war veteran. She had served as a key aide on President George W. Bush’s National Security Council and led a critical cybersecurity agency under President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Now she was
blackballed [her offer to teach at West Point rescinded] — in her own words, “a casualty of casually manufactured outrage that drowned out the quiet labor of truth and the steady pulse of integrity.”
The source of the casual outrage arrayed against her was Laura Loomer, a right-wing agitator and self-described “Islamophobe,” who has become a
powerful and largely unaccountable enforcer in President Trump’s Washington.…”