The political Left struggled on Tuesday to find terminology sufficiently jarring to express their rage and disdain for President Trump’s just-released budget. That’s the price we pay for living in an age of political hyperbole.

Liberal journalists, activists and politicians denoucned the president’s proposed cuts as “brutal!” “huge!” “shocking!” and “gutting the public sector!” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi inventively suggested Trump was “assaulting the food we eat,” which, conjuring up a mental image of the Cookie Monster, is a new way of looking at the 45th president.