This week, Donald Trump accused six Democratic lawmakers of sedition and said their actions were “punishable by death” after they posted a video urging service members to refuse unlawful orders. Amid a surge in political violence in the U.S., Ali Velshi warns that Trump is publicly voice and encouraging authoritarianism, and the violence that comes with it.

Not even Abraham Lincoln, who faced armed traitors attempting to overthrow our union, called for the execution of his political opponents. George Washington never hanged nor even harmed any of the 900 captured enemy forces after the battle of Trenton in 1776. And furthermore, criticism is not sedition.

It is protected under U. S. military law for service members to refuse unlawful orders — that is orders which call for committ

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