I remember when Rep. Joe Wilson shouting “you lie” at Obama during a heated moment led to weeks of pearl-clutching from Democrats and the media. We’re well past that territory now.

Dems turned President Trump’s address to Congress into a full-fledged protest rally with signs, slogans, t-shirts with messages, color-coded clothes, walkouts, and full-on disruptions that finally led to Rep. Al Green being kicked out.

The behavior was up there with the reaction to a college speech would have been twenty years ago.

And considering the trajectory of college campuses, I have to wonder how long until this behavior escalates. There were two near-physical confrontations at the speech. At this rate, we’re years away from Taiwanese legislative behavior in which physical brawls and chair-throwing become the norm.

Much of this behavior was aimed at the media and the base, but while it may have connected with them, it came off badly with the general public. Clown shows and confrontations play better on campuses than at a presidential speech. Different politicians desperately scrambling for attention came off as overgrown members of protest groups rather than legislators actually making a difference.

I can’t help but think that some of the Dems who stayed home or walked away were less motivated by protesting Trump than avoiding being associated with the behavior of their colleagues.

The disgrace in D.C. was another swing and a miss for the Democrats still scrambling to stop Trump.

“This is my fifth such speech to Congress, and, once again, I look at the Democrats in front of me and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud. Nothing I can do. I could find a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out entire nations or announce the answers to greatest economy in history or the stoppage of crime to the lowest levels ever recorded, and these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand, and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements,” President Trump observed.

Democrats certainly did not cheer or stand up for anything, but they did jeer. This didn’t damage Trump. It damaged them.