Dems exhaust the last of their credibility with a false Trump constitutional crisis

Forty years ago, a radio personality coined the phrase “jump the shark” in reference to the episode of the sitcom “Happy Days,” in which the character Fonzie (Henry Winkler) jumps over a live shark on water skis.The term is often applied to dying franchises, which turn to sensational language or scenes to try to revive the fading interest of the public.

More often, you jump the shark and land in utter obscurity.This week, the Democratic Party jumped the shark.For years, Dems and their allies pushed that absurd claim that democracy was about to die if Joe Biden or Kamala Harris were not elected president.The public wasn’t buying it.

In 2024, Donald Trump won a majority of the voters as well as control of both houses of Congress.Rather than examine its messaging, Democrats decided to double down.After the election, politicians and pundits announced a new “constitutional crisis” surrounding the effort to downsize the federal government led by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).Kris Mayes, the attorney general of Arizona, declared this week that “We are on the brink of a dictatorship, and America has never been in a more dangerous position than she is today.” The same media that carried the breathless accounts of the imminent death of democracy with the last election are now running “constitutional crisis” articles with many of the same “experts.”Despite Trump repeating that he “will abide by the courts” while appealing opposing decisions, NPR insisted that Trump’s circle has indicated that it is “willing to ignore court orders and defy judicial authority.” During his first term, Trump repeatedly lost cases — as did his predecessor, Barack Obama, and successor, Joe Biden — but he continued to comply with those rulings.The fact is that we have the oldest and most stable constitutional system in history.

It has repeatedly survived challenges from political to economic meltdowns that would have ...