If the members of the Democratic Party truly believe that former President Donald Trump is the threat to democracy they claim he is, they would be acting very differently right now.

As President Joe Biden and his campaign continue to fend off calls from his own party for him to step aside in the presidential race to allow a younger, more energetic candidate to lead the party’s ticket, the fact that the party is not unified in dumping its geriatric presumptive nominee betrays how little the party actually believes its talking point that Trump is a grave threat to democracy.

On a recent episode of the Bulwark Podcast, hosted by never-Trump commentator Tim Miller, New York Times opinion writer Ezra Klein admitted that he has heard from Democrats who admit that they don’t actually believe their hysterical talking point.

“I’ve had top Democrats say to me basically something like, ‘I don’t know why all these Democrats who think Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy are acting the way they are,” Klein said. “But the reason I’m acting the way I am is because I don’t think that.'”

Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME), who represents a House district that overwhelmingly voted for Trump four years ago, likewise said in a column published earlier this month that democracy would be just fine if Trump were to win in November.

“Unlike Biden and many others, I refuse to participate in a campaign to scare voters with the idea that Trump will end our democratic system,” he wrote.

The truth is that most party-line Democratic Party politicians have never believed that Trump is the threat to democracy they claim he is. Instead, they have parroted this talking point for years to rile up their base and bolster fundraising.

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But now the reality is setting in that Trump is very likely to win the presidency in November, and quite possibly in a landslide. Under such a scenario, one would think that the leaders of the Democratic Party, Biden aside, who repeatedly claim that he will destroy democracy would be in a hurry to find a candidate who could stop the bleeding and make the presidential race competitive once again.

Given the lack of urgency, one can only conclude that the Democratic Party does not actually believe Trump is a threat to democracy. And given the state of the race, it appears that voters never bought the party’s hysteria in the first place.