Journalists aren't normally the people who tell Democrats they need to be calmer and more pragmatic. They're often the ones prodding the Democrats to shriek about Trump bringing the end of democracy. It doesn't matter that the Democrats spent the entire 2024 election cycle pushing "autocracy" as an issue -- and then losing in a democracy.

On Sunday's Meet the Press, Boston Globe senior opinion writer Kimberly Atkins Stohr was one of those leftist agitators, using the tariff turbulence as another opportunity to cry Tyranny: 

WELKER: Yeah, well, and of course the Fed chair did say he believes these tariffs could ultimately raise inflation. Kimberly, do you think Democrats, they have an opening here, but are they using it effectively?

KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR: I wish more Democrats in a united way would speak the way that Senator Booker did. You have a lot of Democrats -- and I understand the desire to talk about policy and to talk about strategy. None of that is happening here. We are seeing, just during the course of this show, things are changing minute by minute as to what is going on. This isn't a strategy. And it is so dangerous. I mean, I believe Ray Dalio when he says that we could be heading toward a depression. And I know Democrats get a lot of heat from Republicans about being too alarmist, and talk about democracy being in peril too much. If we are in a position like we were in the 1930s, do you think talking about that too much is a problem? A collapsed economy is an open door to autocracy, and that is what Democrats should be shouting from the mountaintops...