Democrats have civil war fever and lately everything seems to be the Civil War. After Biden spent four years in office constantly comparing himself to Abe Lincoln even though the only apparent similarity was that both men were brain dead (albeit for very different reasons), other Democrats are claiming that it’s all the civil war.

Winning the prize this week is a gentleman from California.

“This is probably the most extreme test of our constitutional democracy that we’ve seen since the Civil War,” Rep. Jared Huffman claimed, in response to the Trump administration’s funding freeze.

Really? The “most extreme” since three-quarters of a million Americans died while fighting each other.

The most extreme since the president ruled through martial law, locked up members of the government, including judges, and a number of states were added on dubious grounds?

I don’t know about you, but I also have trouble telling apart a funding freeze and a war that went on for several years and devastated entire cities.

Making this even sillier is that Dems have used grandiloquent demagoguery like this to describe everything from Goldwater speeches to Iran Contra to the Patriot Act to George W. Bush making fun of reports to Trump enjoying a taco bowl. When everything is a crisis then nothing is and even liberals are exhausted by this level of Orange Man Bad Mania.

But let’s take a step back here.

If the funding freeze is the “most extreme test of our constitutional democracy” since the Civil War, who are the Democrats in this scenario, the Union or the Confederacy?