Virginia Heffernan: Taylor's testimony causes Trump to push the panic button

President Trump ran all the old plays. He said "witch hunt." He fumed with Sean Hannity. He tweeted "do-nothing Democrats."

He may have been trying to self-soothe. But it came across as panic.

And the Democrats? "Do-nothing" maybe doesn't quite nail what they've been up to.

First, on Oct. 16, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi went one-on-one with Trump in the Cabinet room over his reckless decision to greenlight Turkey's brutal incursions into Syria. Two days later she published a moving elegy for the Democrat she called the North Star of the House, Maryland Rep.