Commentary: Ted Cruz Denounces Controversial Army Ad, Says ‘Woke Cancer’ Is ‘Trying To Destroy the American Military’

“Woke-ism” is being exported to the U.S. military, GOP Texas Sen. Ted Cruz told Fox News’ Harris Faulkner on Friday — and he says the end goal is to turn our men and women in uniform “into, frankly, a bunch of pansies.”

Cruz, a member of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, was reacting to an animated Army recruitment video that had gone bad-viral on Twitter. The cartoon featured the story of Cpl. Emma Malonelord, “a soldier who operates your nation’s Patriot missile Defense Systems.”

It then segues into a Malonelord telling us how her journey “begins in California with a little girl raised by two moms,” followed by scenes from an LGBT march and a lesbian wedding.

The original two-minute ad gained plenty of digital infamy on its own, but the ignominy was turned up to 11 when someone compared it with a Russian military recruitment video:

Color Cruz decidedly unimpressed.

“Look, it’s ridiculous, and the men and women of our military, our soldiers and sailors and airmen and Marines are the toughest, most ferocious, and effective fighting force on the face of the planet,” Cruz told Faulkner, according to Fox.

“They are the reason we are free. They are the reason we have our rights. And what we’re seeing is Democratic politicians and these woke, lefty bureaucrats and lefty media reporters trying to destroy the American military, trying to turn it into, frankly, a bunch of pansies.”

But wasn’t it woke? Yes, and that’s not how you get people to join