Below is my column in The Hill on the Democratic establishment struggling to fend off attacks from the far left in their party. After years of fueling the mob, leaders from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are finding that the mob has its own ideas about revolutionary change that do not include them.
Here is the column:
“You’re next!”
This chant, at the victory celebration of the Democratic Socialists this week, was a message not for the oligarchs or the billionaires, but for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and the Democratic establishment. They were threatening that Jeffries would be the next to lose his House seat to a socialist candidate.
It was a scene that has recurred throughout history, as establishment leaders are overtaken by the very mobs they sought to use for their own purposes.
For years, Jeffries has joined other Democrats in fueling the rage on the left in the hopes of becoming the next House Speaker. Whether calling for supporters to “fight in the streets,” denouncing the Supreme Court as “illegitimate” or posting an image of himself brandishing a baseball bat, Jeffries sought to portray himself as a class warrior worthy of the mob’s support.
Other Democratic leaders followed suit — especially Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. It was Schumer who yelled threats at conservative Supreme Court justices in front of the court. A deranged man triggered by such rhetoric in the media later attempted to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Schumer and others portrayed their opponents as Nazis who threaten the very existence of democracy, and they stoked class conflict to inspire resentment for the wealthy.
Former Democratic National Committee deputy chair Keith Ellison — now Minnesota’s attorney general — celebrated that Antifa would “strike fear in the heart” of Trump and his supporters.
Figures like Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) (who is reportedly worth half a billion dollars due to his wife’s inherited fortune) have attempted to ride the rage wave by advocating a billionaire’s tax that is presumptively unconstitutional.
By the time these establishment figures realized their armchair-revolutionary rhetoric would not convince the mob, it was too late.
Jeffries and figures like former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had endorsed candidates such as Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), who perhaps more than anyone else personified the problem. He was the attack dog of the establishment, fueling rage and promising a spate of impeachments. But what the left saw was a trust-fund baby who had inherited a fortune, owns three houses, and has publicly pledged to use his inheritance to fund his reelection. He came across as the Democratic Richie Rich, and he lost on Tuesday by more than 30 points.
In my book Rage and the Republic, I discuss how these Democratic leaders are following the same self-destructive pattern of prior establishment figures in history who thought that they could use mobs against their opponents while hoping that they would be overlooked.
The American and French Revolutions were contemporary movements based on Enlightenment principles. But whereas our Revolution went on to become the world’s oldest and most stable republic, the French Revolution became the blood-soaked Terror. The French Revolution was not some spontaneous uprising of the proletariat or underclass. It was led by relatively affluent figures on the left, from aristocrats to journalists to lawyers. Maximilien Robespierre, who would later declare terror a virtue, was a lawyer who helped organize the revolutionary Jacobins.
These educated and affluent figures turned to working-class radicals as their muscle to terrorize their opponents. And not long after executing aristocrats and clergy, the radicals turned on the Jacobins themselves. “Moderates” were sent to the guillotine by Robespierre and his henchmen as they clung to power. But eventually, the mob came for them, too.
After the Terror, French writer Jacques Mallet du Pan wrote, “Like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children.”
After candidates endorsed by socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani easily swept aside the establishment candidates in Jeffries and Schumer’s backyard, politicians and pundits began to panic. They never imagined the mob would turn on them.
Even liberal media figures such as Ezra Klein and pandering academic figures have become targets of the left. Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, who has called for the effective trashing of the U.S. Constitution, had law students staging protests in his own home.
Others have sought to stay at the front of the mob. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) denounced the lengthy sentences handed down to nine violent Antifa figures in Texas for their roles in the ambush and attempted murder of a police officer who had responded to the disturbance they were creating at an ICE facility. The officer, Alvarado Police Lt. Thomas Gross, barely survived a bullet to the neck.
In the meantime, the mob is continuing its rush toward socialism and communism. One of those elected in New York, Democratic Socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier, bragged about how she wiped her hands on the American flag as her fellow victors pledged to tear down core institutions, including the Supreme Court.
In Michigan, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is soaring in popularity after campaigning with virulent anti-Semite and extremist Hasan Piker. Piker was on hand to celebrate the recent victories as speeding along the socialist agenda to end capitalism and has promised the mob that “the American empire is going to inevitably fall.”
For some of us who predicted the rise of the American Jacobin movement, there is little joy in seeing Democratic establishment figures consumed by their own mob. They have been feeding a rage addiction in this country. Now they express surprise as protesters celebrate the assassination of Charlie Kirk and display guillotines at protests for those deemed enemies of the people.
After starting a brush fire, they have found themselves engulfed in the same flames with their targets. With Democratic voters now expressing support for socialism in record numbers and politicians pledging radical changes to our political system, they have proven again to be what Soviet communists called the “useful idiots” of the American left.
If history is any measure, we may soon find ourselves in the same position as Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes, who was considered the Thomas Paine of the French Revolution. When asked what he had done during the Revolution, the old abbot pondered the question and answered: “I survived.”
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the New York Times best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.“
Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are running America?
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union…secure the Blessings of Liberty TO OURSELVES and OUR POSTERITY, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
– Preamble of the American Founders, 1787
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Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, 1802 – United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization”
Any Alien being a free white person…may be admitted to become a citizen thereof….
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What the —- happened?
Americans enjoy the liberty of their individual forms of their “pursuit of happiness” and their operation a private property free enterprise, in the free markets of the private sector without any aspect, facet, or degree of governmental interference, such as unenumerated regulation, price, rent, and wage control, etc.
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“[Private property is] that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual.”
– James Madison
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14th Amendment
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Capitalism is freedom of finance and socialism, which is communism, is unconstitutional.
Speaking of equal protection of the law and deterrence of defamation, SCOTUS today refused to take up Alan Dershowitz’s appeal aimed at revisiting Sullivan v. NYT. Thus, the 9 robed sages chose to maintain a 2-tiered system of defamation law, where it’s hard to get accomplished leaders to run the gauntlet for public office.
Seems like the 14th Amendment only applies to some forms of legal protection?
In the history of the Supreme Court, several Justices have expressed views that align with a strict, absolute reading of the Constitution’s text regarding liberty and the freedom of speech, often in direct opposition to the Court’s created exceptions for defamation.
Justice Hugo Black: The “Absolutist” Justice Hugo Black is the most prominent figure to argue that the Constitution’s words should be followed exactly as written.
The Verbatim Rule: Black famously maintained that when the First Amendment says “no law,” it means absolutely no law. Dissenting from Exceptions: He argued that the provision intended there should be “no libel or defamation law in the United States Government, just absolutely none”. Rejection of Balancing: In his concurrence in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964), he argued for absolute immunity for criticism of public officials, stating that the Court’s “actual malice” standard was a judicial creation that still left the door open for the “destruction” of a free press.
Justice William O. Douglas: Absolute Protection Working alongside Black, Justice Douglas also advocated for an absolute interpretation of the Bill of Rights as incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment. Against Judicial Invention: Douglas argued that the Court had no authority to balance “liberty” against other social interests because the Constitution had already done that balancing by protecting speech absolutely. Criminal Defamation: He was among the justices who signaled that criminal defamation laws should be abolished entirely, viewing them as a direct deprivation of the liberty guaranteed by the Due Process Clause.
Modern Critiques of Judicial Modification
While modern Justices like Clarence Thomas use a different method (originalism), they have recently issued opinions criticizing the Court for “revising the Constitution”.
Policy vs. Law: Justice Thomas has described the Court’s current defamation standards as “policy-driven decisions masquerading as constitutional law”. Unauthorized Rules: He argues that the “actual malice” standard is a “rule of its own creation” that has no relation to the actual text or structure of the Constitution.
Summary of the Dissenting View
These Justices have argued that:
– The word “liberty” in the Due Process Clause is a mandate that cannot be narrowed by judges.
– The Court violates its duty when it uses common law (unwritten rules) to override the verbatim text of the Constitution.
– Any limitation on speech, including for defamation, would require a Constitutional Amendment rather than a judicial opinion.
More On Fox News Poll
The latest Fox News survey, released Thursday, finds a record 38% think it would be a good thing for the United States to move away from capitalism and in the direction of socialism — up from 32% in 2022, the last time the question was asked. In 2010, a low of 18% backed socialism.
Very liberal voters (66%) and Democrats under age 45 (66%) are those most likely to think moving to socialism would be good. More than half of all Democrats (55%), Black voters (55%), and those under age 30 (53%) also favor moving away from capitalism.
Still, a majority of 61% think it’s a bad thing to move toward socialism, including large majorities of Republicans (78%), conservatives (75%), men over age 45 (75%), and voters ages 65 and up (75%).
The shift may be tied to divided views on capitalism itself. Voters are split over whether capitalism in the United States is working well: 51% say it’s working very or somewhat well, while nearly as many, 49%, say it’s working not very or not at all well.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-socialism-gaining-ground-among-voters
So this one says 38%, whereas the Chinese Communist Party liar below said 49% and provided no link.
Favoring socialism is something done by wealthy societies that got that way due to free markets and strong property rights (capitalism). People who actually have lived in socialism have a much dimmer view of it, which is why the most conservative countries in Europe are those that used to live under state socialism during the Cold War.
The greatest socialism-versus-free-markets experiment took place during the 20th Century. Eastern Europe could be compared to Western Europe. The desire to emigrate was nearly 100% from Eastern to Western. And North Korea versus South Korea. Starting at the end of the 20th century, 25 years of socialism converted South Amercia’s wealthiest nation into an economic basket case.
Old Man, 49% is still in the Fox story.
Here’s a political question: Where could we be making improvements to American-style capitalism that would restore faith where it is sagging?
– Create a new Human Development Corp. (HumDev) that privatizes and energizes human development services now being botched by tax & spend govt. bureaucracies. Give yearly voucher to every citizen spendable only on human development. Give preferential tax and estate benefits for HumDev investments.
Create the most highly prepared and responsive supply of human capital on the planet by applying private ownership incentives. As many as 30% of HumDev workers to be personal agents representing individual talent.
– Use multi-generational family economics to encourage and partially support young marriage. Shift expectations that young couples enter marriage and childbirth before full financial emancipation. The first decade of married life becomes a gradual process of financial independence from parents generation.
– Businesses are given incentives toward support of new family formation and childraising. Incent daycare coops on site at business where parent works.
– Ban wealth-transfer schemes from young Americans to older Americans (online gambling, prediction markets)
– No existence taxes or fees on startups.
– Merit-based immigration system with numerical limits proposed by Barbara Jordan Commission in ’97.
– Reform youth employment and contracting law so that young teens can gradually learn how to thrive in a capitalist economy. Harsh punishments for child labor abusers.
Jeffries’ socialism dilemma: New York victories expose Democratic Party divide
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jeffries-socialism-dilemma-new-york-victories-expose-democratic-party-divide
Why Socialism Is Hip
A Fox News poll in March showed that 49% of all registered voters, including 72% of Democrats and 60% of independents, described capitalism as working “not very” or “not at all” well.
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This poll presents valuable insights regarding the newfound popularity of socialism. That old Koch message of ‘free market choices’ has fallen totally out of favor.
No link provided. I call BS on those numbers. Typical for the Chinese Communist bot that posts here every day.
Sometimes people get so crazy they vote for their own destruction.
It’s a classic short-term vs. long-term tradeoff.
There’s no short-term gain to electing as mayor someone who previously burned the city down and deprived it of water, over someone with actualy plans to rebuild and improve the city. Yet the dim-witted voters of LA voted for more of the same destruction. They get the government they deserve.
“… They have been feeding a rage addiction in this country. …” – JT
And now that They (DNC Demons) have their hoard ($$$) They will disappear into the ether (to vanish completely, seemingly evaporating into thin air or the void in the fabric of the United States of America).
As the Citizens have always felt the punch in the gut that Their era of Bull Sh*t is temporal (tempus: meaning wasted “time”).
Here’s a story ’bout Billy Joe and Bobbie Sue (Democrats)
Go On! “Take the Money and Run” Recorded in 1976 by the Steve Miller Band
Go On! “Take the Money and Run”
Enjoyed listening to them then and now.
Ultra-virulent socialists telling a just plain old virulent socialist, “You’re next!” – is comedy gold.
U.S. Military Undoing Radical Decision
The US military is racing to vaccinate new recruits after a two-month halt on mandatory flu shots – but it’s a temporary reprieve, as the shots will soon expire and new doses will not be available for months.
Officials will need to lean on other prevention measures to contain the growing flu outbreak at Lackland air force base in San Antonio, Texas, experts say.
The flu vaccines now being deployed across military basic training camps are set to expire on 30 June, and new doses will not arrive until August or later.
US military services, including the air force, army and navy, reinstituted flu vaccine requirements for new recruits earlier this week after defense secretary Pete Hegseth removed the mandate at the end of April.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/us-military-flu-shots
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Alleged alcoholic Pete Hegseth thought ‘personal freedom’ should trump common sense. The result was a major flu outbreak at a base in Texas. Public schools should learn from this ‘experiment’.
^ Freedom-hating Chinese Communist propagandist liar ^
Nothing in the world with Usher in as much peace as every American Service member dropping dead right now.
^ The new Democrat party line ^
“Common sense should prevail over freedom” is the (dishonest) rallying cry for freedom-hating commies and fascists worldwide.
Estovir, the military was never in the business of catering to every soldier’s personal choices.
^ The moron who thinks everyone else is named Estovir ^
Remember how David Duke harmed the Republican brand? That’s what Darializa Avila Chevalier and her ilk are to the Dem brand.
Chevalier wants to abolish prisons, abolish police, and open the borders. She couldn’t bring herself to say that a person who randomly murders another person should go to jail. Like David Duke, she opposes inter-racial marriage. She bragged about wiping her dirty hands with the American flag. She hates America with a passion, wants to bring America down from within.
She will win a national election, giving her even more public prominence than Duke, who only won a state-level election. The rest of America will take notice and she will unwittingly help the GOP by tarnishing the Dem brand outside of pockets of deep-blue lunacy like NYC, Minneapolis, and Seattle.
Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, who has called for the effective trashing of the U.S. Constitution
That right there is a sign of mental illness. Like a med school dean calling for the abolition of medicine, or a business school dean for communism, or a vet school dean for the abolition of animals, or an engineering school dean for abolishing math.
TURLEY: Our party was hi-jacked by radical wingnuts. So if the Democrats are hi-jacked by radical wingnuts, that levels the playing field.
Misery loves company.
If you’re implying the same thing happened to the GOP, then you live in opposite world. The ideological conservatism of the 1980s has been replaced by populist pragmatism.
The ideological conservatism of the 1980s was innovative-constructive (e.g., Jack Kemp’s Enterprise Zones).
The current “populism” is angry, disinterested in institution-building, and escapist (blame opponents for everything that’s bad). It’s an unconstructive mindset that wastes time and energy refusing to take responsibility for hard choices and tradeoffs.
Sometimes you make a good point, and sometimes you’re full of it. This is one of those times you’re full of it.
“… there is little joy in seeing Democratic establishment figures consumed by their own mob …” I disagree, professor. There actually IS a little joy in seeing some career politicians getting their comeuppance at the hands of their own voters. “Miss Cleo” told them years ago – they just didn’t believe her.
If Dan Goldman would have spent 1/10th the time defending Jews and calling for an end to antisemitism, as he spent telling lies about Donald Trump, he would have been re-elected. Of the 34 remaining Jewish members of congress, this should be your wake up call, “Your Next”.
You can end this these antisemitic radical Socialist Democrats racists by simply voting for the SAVE ACT.
Are you listening, Chuck Schumer?
No, it was anti-semitism that drover their victory. And Schumer’s allegiance is far more to the Communist revolution than to the safety of Jews.
“So there is a woke mind virus, and I think we found patient zero.”
— Bill Maher
“If this is where the Democratic Party is going — this obsession with Israel, with the Jew-hating, they don’t believe in capitalism, no prisons. If this is where they’re going, my vote is in play,” Maher told the veep. [VP Vance]
Bill Maher is saying he would consider voting for Vance or Rubio in 2028 if the Democrat party goes the way of the DSA.
Dems, you are in danger of losing Bill Maher! And there are a lot more like him than there are of the socialists! Think long and hard on that one.
The Dem leadership went into the building holding their political enemies and set it on fire only to discover that their mob backers barred the door with them still inside. The parallels to the French Revolution are dramatic. If anyone is unfamiliar with it, I suggest they read about now. At this rate we may be living it soon enough.
Overdramatic. The police and military swear allegiance to the Constitution. Even if Mandami or AOC were elected President, s/he would not be able to establish a police-state, because s/he wouldn’t be able to command the security apparatus as a despot does. Militant, armed revolutionaries would be crushed like a bug within 24h of any violent uprising, regardless of who is in the WH.
Try to understand that our country is designed to distribute power widely throughout an educated populace.
A idea of the French Revolution happening here is paranoid fantasy. Try to appreciate the constraints on such a thing happening.
Did you view the “no kings” protest the same way?
The constraints that our “educated” populations are trying to remove. The Supreme Court one of the most important together with the EC and the Constitution itself. They have already eliminated dissenting views from our high education institutions and the education of our children is in the hands of extreme teacher unions.
Maybe the American Jacobins are really doing us a service by ridding the Democrats of the Goldmans, Espaillats, and hopefully soon Schumer, Jeffries, and their acolytes. While they may be replaced locally by American Jacobins, it is difficult to believe that American Jacobins will succeed politically on a national level. Even with the influx of millions of migrants, once they realize that the communist/socialist policies of the progressives are destined to turn the U.S. into a country not unlike the $hithole country from which they fled, the pendulum will swing back, but hopefully not too far.
DNC quotes “strike fear in the heart.” What’s needed is a mob enforcer.
Frank Nitti says, “ This is the way they pay me back.”
It’s good to see that our government has finally seen one of our biggest problems and is attempting to deal with it. While I anticipate much blockage from activists judges in whatever way they might impede this, it is a good start and may open the eyes of middle of the road democrats as to why they should leave their part (I know – I’m a dreamer). (from Fox: A federal grand jury is investigating alleged financial crimes by Neville Roy Singham, the China-based tech tycoon whose fortune has funded a sprawling network of socialist, communist and Marxist organizations across the U.S. over the last decade.
According to sources familiar with the matter, the grand jury in Manhattan has issued subpoenas as part of a probe launched by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton for the Southern District of New York, one of the country’s most powerful districts for federal prosecutions. Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche authorized the investigation as the Trump administration seeks to crack down on fraud, money laundering and other financial crimes in the multibillion-dollar nonprofit industry.
SDNY isn’t a good place for a trial for such a person. The local jury pool, which we’ve seen is very partial to socialism/socialists, will be disinclined to convict him no matter his guilt.
Alas, as a resident of Northern NY, I know so well that that horde of ignorant parasites that make up the NYC area spoil everything for the rest of the state. As we already know, despite the AWFUL record of hochul, she will be re-elected for the exact same reason. If we do not get a handle on this flow of money to these indoctrinated morons we will lose this nation in a short time. If the dems gain control again, we are gonners.
Whimsicalmama, I was extremely disappointed to see Elise Stefanik’s gubernatorial campaign derailed. I don’t know much about Bruce Blakeman, but we really need to defeat Kathy Hochul.
The day you stop trusting juries is the day we begin to lose our freedom. I don’t care whether jury is NYC, Portland, Seattle or DC. They’ll listen to the facts, decide who’s telling the truth, apply the law, and do their service.
Trump was WRONG to disparage the jury system. It’s the genius of a free country that can never be taken over by a wannabe despot. The jury system keeps criminals and gamer-elites in their place.
Do you know why there weren’t any black jurors on the karmelo Anthony murder trial? It was because the black potential jurors said that they would have a problem convicting a black person despite the facts. That is a broken jury system that does not represent our free nation. You must learn to identify aberrations to our culture that impact what our founding fathers counted on when they created this constitution. They truly believed that this nation would continue to be represented by moral men without prejudice because of their faith in a higher authority. What we have now is a nation divided into what our founding fathers envisioned and a cadre of immoral, progressive, humanists and minorities motivated by grievance mongers who use them as tools for furthering an agenda not apparent to those said tools. NO our jury system is broken by multiculturalism, grievance mongers and an education/media industry that does not like our original national ethos.
A black wNBA player pressed her fist on the Carotid artery of a white player. The black player was not punished during the game and later was suspended for one game. If you reversed the races of those two players, the white player would have been criminally charged and permanently kicked out of the league.
Total baloney. The 3 black jurors were dismissed by the prosecution (peremptorily) based on their status as teachers. There were no voir dire questions about “would you have a problem convicting a black defendant?”
You know nothing about how jury selection works if you think those 3 jurors were bumped for the bs reason you cited.
Each of the 3 had testified under oath that they could be unbiased as jurors.
I doubt it would have changed the final verdict, because it’s based on the detailed facts of the case, not your presumed incoming racial prejudices of jurors.
The socialist surge, in my opinion, is temporary and simply a novel way to express one’s antipathy to President Trump and the virtues that he stands for. We must remember that only 17 percent of voters in NYC elected the three socialists earlier in the month. This small number was made up mostly of young white liberals. The vast majority of New Yorkers are not interested in elections; they just want out of there. Punitive high taxes, relentless crime, filthy streets, and pot smoke everywhere have driven the once-great city to ruin. The current group of city leaders will go down in history for one thing and one thing only: what they will do to NYC will demand bringing in someone like Trump to fix it again. Trump may be too old to take on the job himself, but the movement he founded will live for many generations to come. Meanwhile, the rest of the nation looks at NYC, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco, and they say no thanks to that sort of weird and stupid leadership.
JJC,
That is an interesting viewpoint.
However, what do you think of the recent NYP article on Alex Soros son, spending some $103m on Democrats for the mid-terms?
To me, that is not temporary.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/27/us-news/george-soros-funneled-staggering-103m-into-midterms-so-far/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter
Upstate: The Soros family has wasted millions on many boondoggles and fantasies. If it’s anti-American, you can bet Soros and his wallet are in the mix somewhere. The history of NYC is interesting and telling. Most voters nonchalant elections until it really means something. Mayor John Lindsey was tossed from office because his sanitation department was too slow to rid the streets of Queens of snow. Abe Beame didn’t collect the trash fast enough in Harlem and suffered the consequences. People forget that the millions of families living in single-family homes in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx (the only single-family home left in Manhattan is the mayor’s mansion) are just like the rest of America when it comes to having a job, decent earnings, safe neighborhoods, and clean surroundings free of senseless crimes and vagrants. The people that came out to vote for the socialists are just like the candidates themselves, young, stupid, and full of nonsensical dreams. Soros and his money bought them and got exactly what they paid for. Eventually, the real voters in NYC will emerge from their homes and retake the city after these clowns are finished destroying and driving out what works and what the people of NYC really want.
The most disloyal act of any American official is betraying the American oath of office.
Even if you disagree with the politics, in the 21st Century Democrats (so far) have been the most loyal to their supreme loyalty oath – the oath of office.
Senator Mark Kelley and members of the CIA and DoD created an ad about not following illegal orders, following the American oath of office.
Trump’s response was to jail them and give them the death penalty for being loyal Americans.
It is clear you have never been in uniform and know even less about their oath and the UCMJ. Also, I must assume you’re being tongue-in-cheek with the comment that most Democrats have been loyal to their oath of office. Do you think we all completely forgot about the Obama admin and Biden admin? Talk about blatant violations of their oath and the law!
But please, continue posting. It is entertaining.
Anon: Your conclusion is as illusory as your premise. They were not punished nor given the death penalty. They were criticized by the POTUS and others for pretextually using their feigned warning to entice gullible service members to disobey lawful orders by interpreting them as unlawful orders by the CIC. They and we know exactly what Kelly and his band of haters and anti-Americans were trying to do. In the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” Decent, honorable, and wise people view Kelly’s talk of his honor as suspect and selective. They got what they deserved: embarrassment and irredeemable harm to whatever legacy they may have earned before they wasted it for political gain.
It’s Estovir, as two different anonymous’ claiming Mark Kelly is a ‘traitor’ for not pledging loyalty to Trump.