It is the Democrats’ conceit that they’re members of the reality-based party. They like to tag Republicans and conservatives as “deniers” of plain facts. It’s a highly debatable proposition in many policy areas — GMO crops and abortion come to mind — but the Democrats’ starkest evasion of facts is currently at the nation’s southern border. The party’s only tactic is outright denial of the plain truth that we have a crisis, and their denial is making it worse.

“President Trump must stop holding the American people hostage and stop manufacturing a crisis, and must reopen the government,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said in January, as the White House and Congress wrangled over shutting down the government over money for border security.