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A spiteful and dangerous obsession has taken hold within the Democratic Party. Basically, it’s this: Donald Trump’s presidency poses such a unique threat to America’s democratic institutions that responding by acting honestly or decently is for chumps.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth put it this way: “I feel very strongly that we Democrats have been taking our time to go through the rule book saying, ‘Hey, you can’t do that. Hey, you can’t do that.’ Meanwhile, Republicans are shooting referees. We need to start playing some hardball as well and we need to start fighting back.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, in Atlanta this week promoting his memoir, spoke in the same vein and mentioned fighting “fire with fire.”

They are hardly alone. That’s the reigning sentiment within America’s largest and oldest political party. There is so much wrong with this it’s difficult to know where to begin. But let’s start with this: The notion that Democrats have been patsies in the Trump era is delusional.

They impeached him twice in his first term. The Democratic attorney general in New York – honoring a campaign pledge – tried to fine him hundreds of billions of dollars and put his entire family out of business. Elected Democratic prosecutors in Manhattan and Atlanta tried to put him in prison. Ditto for Joe Biden’s Justice Department. The go-to greeting for Trump from Democrats ranging from California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter to Oscar-winning actor Robert DeNiro is “F*** Trump!”

In addition, there’s the collateral damage wreaked on our system by the Democrats’ hatred of Trump and his MAGA movement. Sen. Duckworth’s........

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