Donald Trump yesterday deployed federal police to attack peaceful protesters, all to stage a photo op of himself threatening to militarily invade his own country. In response, House speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer issued a press release and promised no real action to do anything, days after House majority leader Steny Hoyer declared that the US House won’t have any floor votes for another month.

Democrats would have you believe they are victims and have no power in this situation — which is, in a word, horseshit. And not just run-of-the-mill horseshit we’ve all gotten used to — this is especially dangerous horseshit, because we need them to actually use the power they currently have to oppose what’s going on. Right now.

They do have real power. The party controls one chamber of Congress that Trump needs to finance his power grab. They also fully control fifteen state legislatures and have partial control of another thirteen state legislatures. And they control nearly half the nation’s governorships and most major cities’ mayoralties — the former of which has authority over the national guard, and the latter of which run the police forces that are committing acts of violence in our streets.