Post Editorial Board
Published Nov. 19, 2025, 5:27 p.m. ET
National Guard troops seen in Memphis on Nov. 18, 2025.REUTERS/Karen Pulfer Focht
Disgusting: Democratic members of Congress are now actively encouraging troops to disobey their commanders.
That’s the clear thrust of the one-minute video released Tuesday featuring Sens. Elissa Slotkin (Mich) and Mark Kelly (Ariz.) warning “This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals . . . against American citizens.”
Other veterans now serving in the House chime in: “Our laws are clear: You can refuse illegal orders,” pronounce Reps. Chris Deluzio (Pa.), Maggie Goodlander (NH), Chrissy Houlahan (Pa.) and Rep. Jason Crow (Colo.).
Yes, they’re all emphasizing the duty to disobey illegal orders — but if they actually saw any real sign that the president or other high commander is issuing such orders, they’d be doing a lot more than just cutting an ad.
Indeed, they plainly don’t believe one word they’re saying, or they’d detail exactly what illegal orders Team Trump has issued.
All of them know that the modern US military takes great care to lay out what constitutes an illegal order; no one now in uniform has the least need for added instruction about it.
The real target audience is the Bluesky addicts and so on who’ll wallow in this propaganda porn — a fantasy that pretends President Donald Trump is an out-of-control dictator poised to sic the military on civilians in some sort of coup, and so panders to progressives’ desperate desire to see themselves as stalwart patriots resisting an outlaw regime.
It’s a disgrace that these veterans are milking their own service to rally partisan support (and raise funds down the line, no doubt) by insinuating that the sitting president is ordering service members to violate the Constitution.
Worse is the real and obvious danger that some in lower ranks could take this nonsense seriously, and think they have a duty to indulge in quiet acts of mutiny — disobeying legitimate orders because they foolishly trust a US senator to play it square with them.
That is: Two members of the Senate and four of the House are all but calling on soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen to defy legal orders — or, say, leak classified info or otherwise sabotage the chain of command.
Until now, we’ve respected Kelly and Slotkin; it’s appalling to see them sink so low.
This isn’t simply a cynical stunt; it’s a contemptible gambit that tiptoes to the edge of sedition. For shame.
Democratic members of Congress who are encouraging troops to disobey orders:
Disgusting: Democratic members of Congress are now actively encouraging troops to disobey their commanders.
That’s the clear thrust of the one-minute video released Tuesday featuring Sens. Elissa Slotkin (Mich) and Mark Kelly (Ariz.) warning “This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals . . . against American citizens.”
Other veterans now serving in the House chime in: “Our laws are clear: You can refuse illegal orders,” pronounce Reps. Chris Deluzio (Pa.), Maggie Goodlander (NH), Chrissy Houlahan (Pa.) and Rep. Jason Crow (Colo.).
Yes, they’re all emphasizing the duty to disobey illegal orders — but if they actually saw any real sign that the president or other high commander is issuing such orders, they’d be doing a lot more than just cutting an ad.
Indeed, they plainly don’t believe one word they’re saying, or they’d detail exactly what illegal orders Team Trump has issued.
All of them know that the modern US military takes great care to lay out what constitutes an illegal order; no one now in uniform has the least need for added instruction about it.
The real target audience is the Bluesky addicts and so on who’ll wallow in this propaganda porn — a fantasy that pretends President Donald Trump is an out-of-control dictator poised to sic the military on civilians in some sort of coup, and so panders to progressives’ desperate desire to see themselves as stalwart patriots resisting an outlaw regime.
It’s a disgrace that these veterans are milking their own service to rally partisan support (and raise funds down the line, no doubt) by insinuating that the sitting president is ordering service members to violate the Constitution.
Worse is the real and obvious danger that some in lower ranks could take this nonsense seriously, and think they have a duty to indulge in quiet acts of mutiny — disobeying legitimate orders because they foolishly trust a US senator to play it square with them.
That is: Two members of the Senate and four of the House are all but calling on soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen to defy legal orders — or, say, leak classified info or otherwise sabotage the chain of command.
Until now, we’ve respected Kelly and Slotkin; it’s appalling to see them sink so low.
This isn’t simply a cynical stunt; it’s a contemptible gambit that tiptoes to the edge of sedition. For shame.
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Democrats to Troops: Don’t Follow Unlawful Orders
New York Post
P.S.
Senators
Elissa Slotkin (Mich)
Mark Kelly (Ariz.)
Representatives
Chris Deluzio (Pa.)
Maggie Goodlander (NH)
Chrissy Houlahan (Pa.)
Rep. Jason Crow (Colo.)
- Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), a former CIA analyst. Slotkin was a community organizer for Roca, Incorporated in Chelsea, Massachusetts, from 1998 to 2000, and a Swahili language translator for Harbor Area Early Childhood in East Boston, Massachusetts from 1999 to 2000.
- Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), a former Navy captain. Since joining the Senate, he supported abolishing the filibuster in order to pass voting rights legislation[88] and a federal minimum wage increase to $15 per hour.
- Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-PA), a former Naval officer. Following his naval service, he attended Georgetown University Law Center, where he graduated magna cum laude with a Juris Doctor in 2013.[5][2]
- Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), a former Naval officer. Spouse Jake Sullivan (m. 2015) Goodlander served as counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the first impeachment of Donald Trump, where she co-authored a 55-page report describing the constitutional grounds for impeaching Trump.[9]
- Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), a former Air Force officer. Houlahan has said that one of the experiences that motivated her to run for Congress was her organization of a bus trip to the Women's March in Washington, D.C., on January 21, 2017.[5] ( Madonna: 'Thought About Blowing up White House'.)
- Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), a former Army officer and Ranger. Crow was an impeachment manager for President Donald Trump's first impeachment trial.[27]
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