Well, now it’s official. The revolution I have been anticipating in these columns for the past two months has finally come and, lo, it turns out to be none other than the American revolution which is, indeed, redux. We have Nancy Pelosi’s own word for it:

As you’ve heard me say over and over again, [in] the dark days of the revolution, Thomas Paine said, “The times have found us.” We think the times have found us now. Not that we place ourselves in the category of greatness of our Founders, but we do place ourselves in a time of urgency [based] on the threat to the Constitution, a system of checks and balances, that is being made. It is—they fought for our independence, they declared independence, they fought and won, they established a democracy.

Mind you, her somewhat garbled history lesson was not meant to place herself in the “category of greatness of our Founders,” but if President Trump had cast himself in the role of George III, as she implied—well, you could draw your own conclusions as to which noble revolutionaries she and her lieutenants were expecting to play in the impeachment drama she was touting.

It’s hard for me to imagine a greater vindication of the premise on which Mr. Trump based so much of his 2016 campaign for the presidency—namely, that of a government in thrall to an unelected elite arrogating to itself the right to lay down the law,