After a crushing midterm loss, Republicans are looking for someone to blame. Pete Hegseth is at the top of the list.

For more than a year and a half, Pete Hegseth has been one of Donald Trump ’s most valuable Cabinet members.

He is muscular and energetic, fueled by a seemingly limitless drive to do some kind of crossfit maneuver with anyone who remains in his orbit for too long. And, like Trump, who once had his young son fast forward through the parts in Bloodsport that didn’t involve fighting, Hegseth loves violence. The man loves war so much that he renamed his job to have the word “war” in it, and then helped Trump launch one of the most ill-advised conflicts in recent memory. They learned this week that perhaps they like war a little bit more than the American public, who voted for basically every Democrat on their ballots in one of the worst midterm defeats for a ruling party in living memory.…