Democrats have landed a few punches on President Donald Trump. But these may help him, not them.

One was his withdrawal of a memo about his order to freeze some spending. Democrats diligently frightened the public by falsely suggesting this would cut Medicaid payments and other money flows mandated by law. Oppositional bureaucrats apparently also sabotaged the order by posting an alarming and inaccurate banner about disruptions on the Department of Health and Human Services website. A gleeful Democratic strategist told NBC News, “Yesterday was the first day I felt good about Dem messaging in, like, six months.”