Seriously, they are both former military, my dad was in for like 30 years, how do they like the drunk secretary? I get that he saw combat, but being in combat doesn’t automatically make you qualified for… well anything except therapy and medical care.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun
Or sometimes engineers are fucking fascists because they like fascism
In the case of dad, he’s very susceptible to loyalty-driven advertising, and is true believers in several sports teams as well.