One of the things Democrats constantly cried about during Donald Trump's first presidential administration was how he was upsetting so many “norms” in Washington. “Norms” refers to the normal expectations for how things are done. During his first term, Democrats routinely engaged their fainting couches with the backs of their wrists pressed to their foreheads over things Trump said or how he said them.

Are Democrats really the party of norms and tradition? Obviously they are not, and the last four years proved it. But now that Trump is back, so is their love of norms.

Trump is indeed a non-traditional politician in that he does not check which way the wind is blowing. He does not conduct polls about what type of pet he should get to help his numbers. If his recent comments on Greenland prove anything, it is that he speaks his mind without waiting to see what a focus-group says. Those facts are a large part of his appeal to people outside the Beltway.

But as Democrats congratulate themselves for not objecting to the results of an election they clearly lost, it is important to remember that was not always how they behaved. In fact, it’s not how they’ve behaved at all in recent years. In that sense, they are very much like they insist Trump is when it comes to “norms.”

One thing Trump had never done before January 6th, 2021, was to call for the challenging of the results of an Electoral College vote. That certainly was an uprooting of a norm…unless you remember every........

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