I mean, unless he was this outspoken in his unit, I doubt they would have done anything.
No idea if he had a TS clearance. If he did this would have been found out in the continual investigations.
@Circle of Willis yeah I don't think any purge is going to happen...or if it does...I doubt they will caught that easily.
We can't purge on religious backgrounds and we don't go deep into internet search unless reported on by his unit.
Well, to paraphrase a famous saying, the best time to purge far-left lunatics from the military would have been twenty years ago; the next best time is now. Anarchism, Communism and anarcho-Communism are not religions (some argument can be made for them being destructive cults, but that's not the same thing save to fedora'd Redditors), in fact they are generally fanatically opposed to religions, and especially their postmodern incarnations fundamentally require the believer to despise America & desire to dismantle it; genuine believers in these ideologies can no more honestly swear an oath to defend the Constitution and the country, than a genuinely-believing Christian can honestly swear to love and serve the Eternal President of North Korea.
Thus they have no place in the US military (an institution whose official axiomatic purpose is to defend the continued existence of the USA and the Constitution it was founded upon), indeed no reason to join the ranks except to gain experience that they hope will make them more effective saboteurs for the Revolution down the line and/or access to military equipment & intel, and any whiff of people subscribing to such fundamentally anti-American far-left ideologies should be grounds for an exhaustive investigation. These people wouldn't even be useful as manpower for a meat grinder, someone willing to burn himself to death in peacetime for ideological reasons is definitely someone who won't hesitate to defect to a Communist power like China or people he thinks are the revolutionary good guys like Hamas at the first opportunity, if America ever finds itself in open hostilities with their ilk. Or, y'know, go full Bolshevik death squad on anyone they don't like in case of civil conflict or a full Red takeover, as I said before.
No doubt it'll take a long while to dig out all the parasites that have entrenched themselves within the military. The rot clearly stretches from top to bottom and bottom to top after all, as evidenced by dudes like this down below and the likes of Milley and that woke USAF general Biden wants to replace him with up top. But in that regard, the American people have lucked out in that these people are pulling their masks off (and their faces with it in some cases, like Bushnell here)
now, in a time when the US is not directly fighting any significant wars abroad for the first time in more than 20 years. You still have time to start cleaning house and, if not eliminate these guys (when they aren't helpfully exposing & eliminating themselves of course), then at least diminish their presence before they can
really start compromising the military at a time when you really can't afford it. I don't remotely believe that Bushnell would have limited his self-destructive tendencies to killing just himself if America were at war with, say, the PRC for example.
