Democrats don’t want us to confirm the identity of the so-called whistleblower in their impeachment drive, because then we’ll realize that we’ve seen this exact same scenario play out before: A career government employee believes it’s up to him or her to save the republic and stop President Trump.

The inspector general report out of the Justice Department last week showed that this pattern started as far back as 2016, when FBI agent after FBI agent self-identified as a hero and began spying on Trump’s 2016 campaign in hopes of uncovering a conspiracy with Russia.