POLITICS: Sen. Mark Kelly is doubling down on his self-dishonor over the ‘Disobey’ video

Slammed for his leading role in Democrats’ disgraceful “Disobey!” video, Sen. Mark Kelly (Ariz.) has gotten on his moral high horse, citing his decades of honorable service in the US military — when his central outrage was to prostitute that service in a bid to impugn the sitting president, at the clear risk of encouraging military mutinies.

The Pentagon has opened a probe of Kelly’s actions: As a Navy retiree receiving significant benefits, he’s clearly still subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice — and the video may constitute a violation of his oaths.

In response, the senator’s blaring out his service record (also playing for sympathy as the husband of ex-Rep. Gabby Giffords, who suffered lasting, near-fatal wounds in a madman’s 2011 assassination attempt), as if that meant he could do no subsequent wrong.

Huh? Benedict Arnold was a bona fide hero before becoming our nation’s most infamous traitor.

And, as we’ve noted, the video starring Kelly and five of his congressional colleagues plainly implied that President Donald Trump, or his subordinates, was likely to issue illegal orders (if he hadn’t already) — why else would these veterans be emphasizing to active-duty personnel that they’re obliged to refuse such commands?

Worse, the spot plainly risks encouraging soldiers, sailors, Marines and/or airmen to disobey legal orders — perhaps covertly, as with Chelsea Manning and Reality Winner; perhaps worse in, say, the ongoing deployment near Venezuela.

Crucially, the six can’t identify any such illegal orders, because there aren’t any.

Hilariously, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) turned to Hollywood for support, stammering: “If you look at popular culture, if you watch ‘A Few Good Men,’ we have plenty of examples . . . where people were told to follow illegal orders.”

It’s a great flick, but purely imaginary — yet it’s the best she could come up with after she seemed to be pointing to a very current danger in the “disobey” video.

Back to Kelly: After Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth rightly fumed that the spot’s “foolish screed sows doubt and confusion,” Kelly blustered that he won’t “be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution.”

Again, sowing confusion was the video’s clear purpose, even if it mainly aimed to scare civilians who don’t know how carefully the modern military educates its own about what constitutes illegal orders, and so are vulnerable to dark insinuations from veterans like Kelly.

Which means the senator is the one who’s being feckless about protecting the Constitution here.

We’re not positive a Pentagon investigation is the right course of action in countering Kelly & Co.’s unbecoming conduct; he’s certainly trying to exploit that probe to play the martyr.

But by citing his service record to pretend that cutting that spot was the action of a hero, not a scoundrel, Kelly is doubling down on the original offense.

It was a low, passive-aggressive smear, dishonoring the spirit of his oath of service, whether or not it violates the letter.