Kneel. Pray. Win. We Have Orders from General George Washington.

I was Told What to Do or Face Dictatorship, so I Hit the Harris-Walz Campaign Trail.

The morning before I left on a weeklong bus tour of the southern states for National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A), I visited my late wife at Washington Crossing National Cemetery. Even though I go quite regularly, there was something special about this trip. I would share a bus from Florida, Georgia, to North Carolina with admirals, generals, and ambassadors. NSL4A had been a non-partisan advocacy group of high-ranking government policymakers from the defense, intelligence, and State Department. But this year was different.

Retired U.S. Navy Mike Smith had decided the members of NSL4A had seen enough. They believed what Donald Trump promised. Should he win, Trump was going to use the military, the government, and intelligence agencies to attack American citizens, dismantle the remaining guardrails of democracy, and turn America into a dictatorship.  One man would rule America … the very wish of a British monarch a two centurys and a half before.

That is when the group endorsed …