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This isn't the Big Thing That Brings Down the Trump Administration that the democrats are rending their garments over and fervently wishing it was
I don't think anyone thought it would be that - certainly no one has suggested it is. The Trump Administration can't be "brought down." He's the President, and will remain so for the next four years (approximately).
But this is still a significant political issue for them to deal with, and it's going to linger. Partially because their response has more aimed at denying that there was anything wrong, rather than acknowledging a problem and then committing to fixing it. But mostly because this mistake lines up very neatly with what Democrats were criticizing about some of his Cabinet picks in the first place - a claim that he was prioritizing political ideology and personal fealty over experience and competence in the subject matter of the agencies.
Hegseth was one of the more heavily criticized, with Democrats complaining that spending the last decade working on television was not adequate preparation to lead a large modern military. This incident supports that complaint. It also makes it all the more remarkable that GOP Senators who voted to confirm him are expressing such concern). If you put someone in charge of the military who has spent the last decade primarily working in television, rather than actually in the military, he won't have the experience or judgment to guide him to refrain from putting this kind of information in a group text that he didn't set up.
