In high school, I visited a local hospital each Friday evening with other volunteers to play bingo, soccer, and other games with the mental health patients. In bingo, players would become confused and angry when the numbers on their cards were not called, and they’d sometimes demand that I go and hit the person calling them. Likewise, on the soccer field, patients would cry “foul!” when an opponent took the ball from them or scored a goal. They didn’t understand what was going on, and they’d sometimes get cross about it.

They could, of course, be forgiven for not understanding how the games were played. But such indulgence is harder to grant Democrats in Washington as they vituperate about the political game not going their way. They display a remarkable inability to understand the process, or at least a complete indifference to it.