The Art of the Manufactured Crisis

This week, the hysteria revolves around Trump’s clash with the courts.

So much is new and topsy-turvy in our national politics, but one thing has endured — the commitment of the Democrats and the media to whipping up insta-hysteria about something Donald Trump has said or done, or might say or do.

This has been a consistent thread in their reaction to Trump since 2015, and the near-unanimous insistence that we are in, or about to enter, “a constitutional crisis” over the last several days is the latest instance.

From seemingly nowhere, the phrase became nearly obligatory in attacks on the Trump administration and in the press coverage.