Getting rid of the trannies and woke crap will cause a surge in enlistments from NORMALS. The 45,000 recruitment shortfall will disappear within two years. Going back to “don’t ask don’t tell” would boost recruitment of NORMALS, too. Do that together with ending “Hate whitey” + ridding trannies + ending woke crap would see enlistment soar.
They are looking at the numbers the same way they look at tax revenues — i.e., there is no behavioral change. The leftists think if they TRIPLE tax rates that tax collections will also triple. But collections would plummet as people exit the workforce and find underground, off-the-books work.
The same is true for military strength. The leftists are not taking account of the huge moral boost that would accrue from a return to NORMALCY and an end to sanctioned perversions. I’d wager that the loss of 15,000 weirdos would be offset by an increase in enlistments four times that within a couple years.