Here's a problem with Space Force: It has been politicized ad nauseam, often devoid of context.

On the right, it was presented during the Trump era as a bright new idea of the president's, often without acknowledgment that its conception predated him, and included a bipartisan proposal on the Hill that the Pentagon was against.

Trump brought momentum to it, but his involvement also brought a right-wing meme-ification, and most Republicans seemingly did nothing to stop it.

Exhibit A: https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Want-You-Space-Force/dp/B07DXKLJM4

On the left, that has plainly turned the Space Force into a punching bag, often with no awareness of what its members do and do not do.

Most national security experts will tell you that there are legitimate national security concerns in space. Not with some fight involving aliens and space ships, but with issues like missile defense and satellite security.

How that is handled is another issue entirely.

Here's where things stand, though: Space Force was created with an act of Congress. Even with the expenditure of major political capital, it's hard to see that changing.

And on we go.

As @ValerieInsinna put it well here, Space Force has a public relations issue to deal with. Today's comments at the White House and subsequent Twitter backlash underscore that. https://www.defensenews.com/space/2021/01/13/can-biden-solve-the-space-forces-public-relations-crisis/

A question for Space Force defenders who laughed along with Trump as the service came into being: Are you going to acknowledge how the service's PR issue was created?

It's reasonable analysis to conclude that if the response is just getting mad at critics, nothing changes.