Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) led a group of 30 House Republicans in urging the Pentagon chief to fight back against “creeping left-wing extremism” in the U.S. military. Rosendale and his GOP colleagues said in their May 25 letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin that they are concerned about “the growing trend of left-wing extremism and politicization in our armed forces,” while citing several examples in support of their position that the non-partisan legacy of the U.S. military “is now in jeopardy.” The lawmakers expressed concern about the firing of a Space Force commander over his remarks that diversity and inclusion training in the military was “rooted in critical race theory, which is rooted in Marxism”; about West Point training that they said was “anti-police” and “racist”; and about the appointment and subsequent reassignment of the first-ever Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer in the U.S. Special Operations Command after the surfacing …