Retired Navy SEAL and Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-
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Friday to statements from a retired Army general who said that identity
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Gen. Sean MacFarland spoke at an American Enterprise Institute event this week, and said that 80 percent of kids in high school consider themselves "American" -- but by the midpoint of their college years, they identify as "hyphenated-Americans."
"Identity politics is a cancer," MacFarland said, adding that it is getting harder to "assimilate everybody" within the United States Military.
"I agree," Crenshaw, who lost his eye in battle, said on "Fox & Friends."