The party out of power is expected to be critical of the party in power; they should offer alternative policies and differing opinions to contrast how they would govern. The concept is the opposition helps keep the party in power accountable and honest; they either prevail by making the case for their ideas or they fail and substantiate the party in power’s policies. Americans are accustomed to our political parties being highly critical, pointed, and even vicious toward the other, but we also expect the “loyal opposition” to be loyal to the country and the Constitution, not maliciously undermine legitimate governance, good order, and the welfare of the nation.

Six shameless Democrats recently promulgated an extremely dubious and provocative ad imploring members of our armed forces to disobey unlawful orders without offering any examples of unlawful orders. The clear insinuation was that service members were being given unlawful orders and should question any orders; the obvious intent was to foster dissension in the ranks and even foment mutiny. Inciting troops to rebel against the Trump Administration is the textbook definition of sedition.

When questioned, none of the seditious six could or would offer examples of any recent unlawful orders but still insisted the troops must be reminded to disobey unlawful orders and left the impression it was a real possibility. Military members are trained in the Uniform Code of Military Regulations and instructed that unlawful orders must not be obeyed, so they understand the gravity of unlawful orders. The most likely unlawful order would be looting or harming civilians, so somewhat obvious.

However, these Democrats made thinly veiled allegations that all Trump Administration orders are suspect which undermines good order and discipline because they encouraged the troops to be skeptical of any orders and their commanders. Their cynical attempt to undercut the Commander in Chief is particularly heinous because they are trying to unfairly put the onus on the troops to discern national security priorities and decide what orders fit those priorities. The troops are not equipped to evaluate strategic decisions by the national command authority beyond obvious tactical infractions like looting and murder. Their effort is quite simply and clearly intended to confuse the troops and weaken the military.

When this ad came out it seemed like an odd outlier, but then then the Washington Post alleged Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered all survivors on a drug running boat be killed thereby committing a war crime. Never mind this combat operation was thoroughly vetted by civilian and miliary lawyers; and a few days later the New York Times debunked the completely erroneous Washington Post story with evidence Hegseth only ordered the drug boat to be destroyed.

Despite facts blowing up another false Democrat narrative, Democrats are doubling down claiming these were unlawful orders tantamount to a war crime. Even more despicable, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is threatening military members with prosecution for following orders whenever they return to power. Democrats are intimidating the troops and sowing discord hoping to disrupt Trump’s military and make it ineffective. They are essentially telling troops to disobey any orders in Trump’s campaign to protect Americans from illegal drugs. This was obviously all orchestrated to undermine Trump and favor the drug cartels.

In stark contrast, Joe Biden ordered a drone strike on an Afghan vehicle alleged to be carrying perpetrators of the Kabul bombing that killed 13 American service members in the catastrophic retreat from Afghanistan. However, just 48 hours later we learned they killed an innocent Afghan family of ten including children. The king of drone strikes, President Barack Obama among numerous hits even ordered a strike on a wedding certainly killing civilians. There were no recriminations for either Democrat Commander in Chief. The Democrat Media Complex just shrugged it off as casualties of war.

Randomly killing civilians is more likely a war crime, but Democrats don’t care because it was a Democrat president and it’s not about war crimes anyway. It’s all about politics and power! Democrats don’t care about the cartels, the illicit drugs poisoning Americans, the integrity of our military, war crimes, and apparently not the welfare of the nation. Democrats only and singularly covet power, so anything that damages Trump and gives them another shot to take him out and regain power is fair game to them.

Once again demonstrating their Machiavellian tactics, yet another concocted Democrat hoax is particularly repugnant because it plainly reveals Democrats are not motivated by any of the flags they are waving because they completely disregard facts and are even willing to compromise the good order of our military and safety of Americans solely for political gain. Americans are not fooled and find their duplicitous shenanigans unconscionable.

Democrats again prove they will do anything for party and power even at the expense of Americans and our military. Voters must remember these traitorous antics next November.

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness’” (Matthew 7:21-23).

Pete Riehm is a Navy Veteran, conservative activist, and columnist in south Alabama. Email him at peteriehm@bellsouth.net or read all his columns at http://www.renewamerica.com/.