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  • Politics/polls can change over night. That article was from November 2nd, and those tweets are from Feb 9th.
    – UnsettlingTrend
    Commented Feb 12, 2017 at 23:15
  • Please do not confuse "support" as in popularity with "support" as in directly supporting unconstitutional acts. When I was in the US Navy, I supported Jimmy Carter. If his administration had asked us to fire into peaceful protestors, or surround congress, or those kinds of things you see in dictatorships, many of us would have refused. The first part of the US military oath is, "I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same". The president comes after that.
    – RichF
    Commented Feb 14, 2017 at 5:38
  • @RichF You'd better be absolutely 100% certain that an order is unlawful before disobeying it. Even in your contrived examples, I can think of circumstances where you would have been wrong to disobey.
    – Michael J.
    Commented Feb 14, 2017 at 15:44
  • @MichaelJ. True. Such disobedience would quite possibly lead to getting shot on the spot. But the world, including the USA, has already established, and even mocks, the defense, "I was just following orders." A good soldier must think.
    – RichF
    Commented Feb 14, 2017 at 16:56