Tell us something we didn't already know! (Yes, I'm stealing from paying homage to Wizard of Id. Sue me, peasants!)

The first effects of a Democrat adjustment to their crushing loss in the presidential election may come in the chamber where they actually managed to hold serve. The New York Times reports that backbenchers may give their entrenched leadership the heave-ho in the next session of Congress to muscle up for the first two years of the Donald Trump restoration. House Judiciary chair Jerrold Nadler is their first target, but not their last:

House Democrats are considering pushing aside some of their most senior leaders from top posts in the next Congress, driven by a worry that aging members are not up to the task of countering President-elect Donald J. Trump and his loyal Republican allies in Congress.

The debate has grown most intense in recent days as dozens of Democrats have been privately pressing Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland to challenge Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York for his position as the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. They are doing so out of concern that Mr. Nadler will be ineffective in pushing back against any efforts by Mr. Trump to abuse his power.

Is this a youth must be served revolt against the eminence grises of a barnacle-encrusted clique? It might read that way at first, except that the oldest of that clique is leading the campaign to dislodge Nadler from his perch:

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been among those privately encouraging him to challenge Mr. Nadler, according to the people familiar with the internal discussions.

Nancy Pelosi leading a leadership challenge is somewhat akin to Gordon Gekko demanding reform and better enforcement at the SEC. Pelosi is practically the entire problem with House Democrat leadership. She encouraged the lawfare that eventually backfired, and the La Resistance strategies that just landed Democrats in the Washington wilderness. Democrats should have dumped Pelosi out of leadership the first time she lost the House majority, not to mention the second time she lost it.

Let's not forget, too, her last project in pushing out old leadership for something new and shiny. How did Pelosi's presidential coup in July work out for Democrats, anyway? Enjoying the Kamala Harris Era, are they? Why anyone would take Pelosi's strategic advice after her actual revolt is beyond comprehension.

And the plot gets even more odd. Harry Truman's famous (but apocryphal) warning about friends in Washington seems like received wisdom ... at least among Democrats:

Mr. Raskin and Mr. Nadler are also close friends, making the internal drama even more uncomfortable. Mr. Nadler led the whip operation for Mr. Raskin’s run for the top post on the Oversight Committee, which he now occupies. They are both members of the unofficial Jewish caucus in the House.

Et tu, Jamé?  

So what's the upside to this plan, anyway? Neither Nadler or Raskin will have much to do in the next session in their current or prospective roles. They will be ranking members, not chairs, and can't issue subpoenas for anything unless Republicans cooperate. And Republicans will most assuredly not cooperate with either one of them, or any ranking members, as long as Democrats are determined to continue using their La Resistance strategies and tactics. 

This exemplifies the Democrats' failure in this cycle. They're so focused on themselves and on Trump that they're not bothering to focus on voters and their issues. They just spent two years indicting and prosecuting Trump and calling him and his supporters Nazifasciststinkybottoms, and voters just told them to go pound sand. Do Democrats really think that another two years of the same shrieking hysteria will change voters' minds? Or are they just too wrapped up in Pelosi's maniacal machinations to notice?

The New York Times leads off the article by suggesting that House Democrats may target all of their senior leadership, but they only have specifics on the challenge to Nadler. It sounds as though this may be a test case to see whether the House Democrat rank and file want to rethink leadership after a series of profoundly stupid and corrupt decisions over the last few years. If that's what they want, though, House Democrats should rethink anyone connected to Pelosi -- and to the Squad as well. They're all pretty revolting these days.