GOP senator calls Democrats ‘dangerous’ for obeying Constitution

by Walter Einenkel for Daily Kos

Daily Kos Staff

Monday, Dec. 01, 2025 Monday, Dec. 01, 2025 at 10:25:01am PST

no image description available — GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri says Democrats "lost the plot" because they told military members to obey the Constitution.

GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri appeared on Fox News on Monday, where he claimed that Democrats’ efforts to hold the Trump administration accountable were dangerous.

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Schmitt: Elected Democrats—not some online troll—elected Democrats have been saying it's okay to disobey orders. That's the first step. But what we saw happened this weekend, through some of those same elected officials, was to say, basically, to military men and women, “Look out, you might get prosecuted.”
This is not the language of we’ll beat them in the next election or we’ll win the argument. This is the language of a color revolution, where you're calling on military men and women to disobey orders. And you put that on top of the firebombing of Tesla dealerships, the riots you see in the streets, the prosecution of a political opponent—the Democrats have completely lost the plot here. And the American people, I think, see that. But it's a very dangerous road to go down here to say you should be disobeying orders because we don't like Trump.