“I do not want to do four more years of ‘Resistance’ nonsense under Donald Trump. Good God,” democratic socialist congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said a few weeks before the election. “Does anyone remember what that was like?”

Yes, we do. The “Resistance” was cringe. Ocasio-Cortez’s comments were funny because they were true: the first Trump administration was awful, and the futility of the liberal “Resistance” was part of the horror. The pussy hats. The safety pins. The childish nicknames for the president like “Orange Man” and “Drumpf.” It’s triggering to even write these things down.

This time around, the vibe is different. Disturbingly quiet, quiescent, even. That’s much worse.