Mastriano Wrote Thesis On Left Wing “Hitlerian Putsch”

The Washington Post reports:

Two decades before he was Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, Doug Mastriano warned in a master’s thesis that the United States was vulnerable to a left-wing “Hitlerian Putsch” that would begin with the dismantling of the U.S. military and end with the destruction of the country’s democracy.

The thesis, written in 2001 when Mastriano was a major at the Air Force’s Air Command and Staff College, is highly unusual for its doomsaying and often fearful point of view, and its prediction that only the U.S. military could save the country from the depredations of the country’s morally debauched civilian leaders.

The paper is posted on an official Defense Department website and lists Mastriano as the author at a time when he said he received a master’s degree from the school. The document displays a disgust for anyone who doesn’t hold his view that homosexuality is a form of “aberrant sexual conduct.”

Read the full article. As has been widely reported, Mastriano has appeared at multiple QAnon events and attended the attack on the US Capitol.

Two decades before he was Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, Doug Mastriano warned in a master’s thesis that morally debauched political leaders weren’t fit to oversee the U.S. military. https://t.co/NHOnijBng7

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 20, 2022