I realize the extremely vast majority of you reading this op-ed are, at worst, center-right. So I beg your forgiveness for the moment because I need to speak directly to the Democrats and progressives who may accidentally stumble across our humble site. 

To the Democrats, progressive activists, and general anti-Trump malcontents who are ripping their hair out every day: What’s the secret to your magically-regrowing hair? What shampoo do you use? Is it a tonic? Is it surgical? Is it Signor Pirelli’s Miracle Elixir?

I am someone who does not like the growth of government power. And while I understand why the White House is doing it, the move to fire the CDC Director and the Fed governor does give me pause. It’s more precedent than actual disagreement, but it did still make me stop for a moment. I realize the impulse of the moment is purge now, worry later, but I’m a worrier by nature.

I really, really do not care for the government having a 10 percent stake in a company and promising (threatening?) similar deals. That causes me grave concern, too.

So, there is a part of me that thinks, you know, you guys might have a point, however miniscule, about Trump overstepping his bounds. But you are so preoccupied with the idea that Americans are just letting all of this happen to us. That somehow the awful, bad, no good, systemically racist citizens of the United States of America are actively participating in the destruction of democracy. It is honestly exhausting keeping up with your cries of doom and gloom.

If you’ll allow me, I’d like to recall for you a story I know we all grew up with.

Do you understand, Democrats, that you have been saying every single breath Donald Trump takes is an attack on Democracy? Are you aware that the shouting and the crying and the violent protests have turned the rest of us into the villagers who no longer believed the little boy in the story?

Understand that this is not an admission that Trump has absolutely crossed the line into full-blown despot. Trump is no less authoritarian today than he was this time last week, last month, or eight years ago. You know how I know this? Because you’re still out there in front of every camera shouting that he is. A cursory glance at history would inform you that such a thing is not allowed under an actual authoritarian regime.

You have spent the last nine years predicting that everything Trump does is the worst thing ever and that we have entered the point of no return. And yet, if you look real close, the Constitution still stands. The system is still in place. In four years, we’ll have another president. Life will go on.

The Constitution is stronger than one president. It’s stronger than a party. It has stood against a lot in its time, and Lord knows it’s been challenged. But time and again, it comes out on top. Meanwhile, you have continued pushing Americans away by consistently taking the 20 percent side of 80-20 issues. If Donald Trump says the murder rate is too high, you will insist we need more murders. If RFK and Trump held a joint press conference on the health benefits of breathing oxygen, you will hold your breath in protest. You have insisted that everything Trump does is wrong and you must oppose it.

Americans aren’t siding with the destruction of democracy. They are turning their backs on insanity. You chased them away and then screamed at them for voting against you.

I regret to inform you that America still stands, Trump isn’t a dictator, and you just look crazy.