I always expected the first few weeks of President Trump’s second term to be bad. But I did not expect to watch Trump and Elon Musk take a flame-thrower to the American government while congressional Democrats engage in the political equivalent of ASMR videos.

It’s truly baffling. Trump has ignored dozens of laws in his quest to purge the federal government of supposedly disloyal employees and create an all-powerful presidency. Musk, his multi-billionaire sidekick, has been allowed to turn literal teenagers loose on every aspect of the federal government, with a mandate to do ... well, no one really knows what, except that it involves gathering enormous quantities of sensitive data, dumping employees at random, and shutting down entire federal agencies.

The Democratic response to this unprecedented attack on the rule of law and the American system of checks and balances has been utterly anodyne. I’ve seen livelier opposition at PTA meetings.

This isn’t that hard. Democrats have one simple message to deliver: Republicans are responsible for everything that happens from now on. Republicans control both houses of Congress and the presidency. All the unintended consequences, government shutdowns and colossal failures will be 100 percent Republican-owned.

Instead, House Democrats are reveling in delusions of relevance. At his press conference last week, Minority Leader Hakeem........

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