"I think there is a very clear revulsion at the idea that someone banned from working with children could hold public office," she said.

Hegseth’s appointment dovetails with the incoming administration’s revulsion against law and order within its own ranks, effectively ensuring, in the years to come, that the military will rot from the inside.

But his victory was also something else: a popular revulsion toward elites, a repudiation of government, a vote to smash all institutions.

Disgust is a strong feeling of revulsion in response to objects perceived to be contaminating, polluting or unclean.

Concluding the findings of fact against the officer, panel chair Craig Hassall KC said there had been "widespread public revulsion towards breaches of Covid regulations, especially from those in positions of responsibility."