I mean if you look at the Trump regime propaganda, and how the various members of Trump's fascist cabinet are positioned and marketed, the guys who sort of serve as a stand in for a fascist masculine ideal, in a way that an aging Trump really can't, are Hegseth and Vance. These guys are this pack of nazichucklefucks "ubermensch." And they both got exposed as incompetent toadies; not just b/c of the leak but because of how they behaved in the texts. I think that's why they're panicking like this.