Michael Goodwin: Dem meltdown over Jeffries-Kushner meeting is a testament to partys radicalization

Sometimes a meeting is just a meeting.And sometimes it’s treason.The meeting in question was between the Democrats’ House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, and Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and ­adviser.My first reaction to the news about the get-together was probably like that of most Americans.

OK, two guys from opposite sides had a meeting.What’s the big deal?After all, people in Washington have meetings all the time.

And perhaps Democrats and Republicans could get more done for the country if they often met privately instead of just shouting at each other during interviews and campaigns.Ah, but the rules — and common sense — go out the window if you are the leader of House Dems in the era of Trump.Then you must be on a total war footing at all times.Even the slightest deviation will provoke a storm of denunciations and threats to boot you from the job.Consider the reaction from James Carville, who has migrated from Southern-fried endearing to absolute bonkers-land.

He was early out of the gate in spotting a capital offense by Jeffries.“You do not meet with them — don’t have anything to do with them,” Carville declared online.He insisted that what Jeffries should have said is, “Any business we have is going to be conducted with you under oath.”Another nutso theme common among the critics, many of whom are from the party’s ascendant far left, was that having the meeting proved Jeffries was not going to be tough enough on Trump even if Dems win the House.They want blood and scalps, and if Jeffries isn’t up to the job of being their Speaker, they’ll find someone who is.“Jared Kushner has no actual government job, he just uses his family connections to get money from gulf autocrats and fund corrupt deals.The only way [Jeffries] should work with him is with demands for documents and subpoenas,” Tommy Vietor, a podcaster and former aide to Barack Obama, wrote on X.Radical lefty Mehdi Hasan, whom CNN calls an “outsp...