Dems' fury at Rep. Thaneder and David Hogg proves they don't believe what they say

Democrats have sunk so low that they come off as hypocrites even when slapping down flagrant opportunists within their own ranks.That was the story last week as the party bosses moved to squelch Rep.Shri Thanedar (D-Minn.) and Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg.Thanedar’s unforgivable sin: pushing for a House floor vote on the articles of impeachment he filed against President Trump last month.It wasn’t going to pass, and the Republican majority could likely even block a roll-call vote on proceeding with impeachment — yet it could still have set some record on an issue that most Dems certainly talk about as serious.Day after day, Democrats tell anyone who’ll listen that Trump is a racist, fascist, threat to Democracy, basically Hitler reincarnated.

Shouldn’t they want future annals of history to clearly show who enabled him, and who tried to stop him?Apparently, the leadership calculates that trying and failing to advance impeachment would make them look even weaker than they are — and, perhaps worse, expose their divisions: Many Dems would vote against Thanedar because they don’t think Trump’s some unprecedented evil (or at least, the majority of voters in their districts don’t).And so other Democrats were cursing Thanedar, calling him (anonymously, of course) “a dumbs–t,” and “utterly selfish,” and his impeachment efforts “the dumbest f–king thing” and “a waste of f–king time.”Ouch! With friends like these ..

.To be fair, Thanedar himself was plainly playing a cynical political game: He’s facing a primary challenge from a far-lefty, so he wanted to score points with the party’s Trump-despising base.In the event, the party got him to pull his motion (though after he’d blared his “leadership” on billboards back home) — yet the whole silly spectacle exposed the emptiness of all Dems’ anti-Trump thunder.They’ve been talking a lot of talk, but apparently with an unspoken agreement that they sh...