Letter: Military Members Swear to the Constitution and the Letter of the Law

The Democratic Party’s Two-Pronged 2028 Strategy: Military Chaos, Moderate Messaging

Democrats have hit upon a two-pronged strategy for 2028. One of the strategies is to make members of the military truly uncomfortable about following their orders. The Democrats apparently believe that this will somehow create unrest and chaos. I don’t know how else to explain why Democrats are now suddenly coming out of the woodwork to suggest that a bunch of illegal orders are being issued from the Trump administration that members of the mili…

Letter: Military members swear to the Constitution and the letter of the law

To the editor: Recently, six members of Congress, all former military or intelligence officers, made a video reminding our service members that they should not follow illegal orders.

Making sense of the idea to defend the Constitution and refusing orders through a historical lens

When Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin and several other members of Congress went public with a video urging current US soldiers to refuse orders to be deployed in US cities, the Trump Administration pushed back and called them traitors. Trump’s response was predictable, but what I want to examine is the message that Senator Slotkin and her colleagues made and how to make sense of it with the history of US military deployments both domestically an…