Several years ago, on a family vacation in the Galapagos Islands, we met members of a local soccer team, who invited us to their big game the next evening against a team from a neighboring island. Excited to cheer on the hometown squad, we turned out for what proved to be not much of a match. The opposition team didn’t even show up.

I kept thinking about that this week, watching the roll-out of Week Two of Trump Two. Again, it was like there was only one team on the field. Team Trump certainly showed up, flooding the zone with multiple executive orders every day. But where was the resistance? With one exception, the Democratic team was missing in action.

That one exception was an order from the Trump White House to freeze all federal grants across the board. It was obviously issued without any idea of how many worthwhile programs, domestic and global (think Meals on Wheels or cancer treatments at Walter Reed Hospital) would be impacted or how much human suffering would result. The result was chaos. And it backfired big time.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), in a news conference and speeches on the floor, immediately rallied Senate Democrats and outside groups in protest. Each of these programs, they pointed out, had been approved and funded........

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