It’s hard to put a finger on a particular moment in time when the Democrat Party jumped the shark, when it began its slide into political irrelevance, but February 4, 2020, is as good a date as any.

You remember: There was President Donald Trump, amid a rousing ovation in the chamber of the House of Representatives, and there, behind him, was 79-year-old House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, having pre-sorted her printed copy of Trump’s State of the Union stemwinder into manageable sections, disgracefully tearing it up for dramatic effect.

But if the Democrats jumped the shark more than five years ago, what are we to make of this weekend’s pathetic “No Kings” event, whose apparent highlight was the frail and now-85-year-old Pelosi standing before a smallish audience of sycophants and tearing up some cheap facsimile of a king’s crown in order to protest the benevolent reign of Donald Trump?

ROYAL RUSE: Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tears apart a fake crown in a “No Kings” video, protesting against President Trump. pic.twitter.com/3OLrV5vZaQ

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“Now, the whole storyline was pretty far-fetched,” said Henry “The Fonz” Winkler of the original “Happy Days” shark-jumping scene, “but with a long-running sitcom, the writers have to try all kinds of things.”

Indeed, the Democrats are trying all kinds of things these days, including propping up an elderly white ex-speaker to energize a mostly elderly white crowd of “No Kings” protesters.

But setting aside the sheer stupidity of the metaphor — what exactly does it mean, anyway, to tear up a toy crown? — what are we to make of the Democrats’ priorities right now? This, after all, is the Party of Big Government, and their self-imposed Schumer Shutdown continues apace, like a tree that keeps falling in the forest without anyone noticing.

Our current House speaker, the far more youthful and vigorous Mike Johnson, was spot-on when he previewed Saturday’s nationwide Soros-funded event: “You’re gonna bring together the Marxists, the socialists, the Antifa advocates, the anarchists, and the pro-Hamas wing of the far left Democrat Party. That is the modern Democratic Party.”

Eighty-four-year-old Democrat Socialist Bernie Sanders, who was the headliner at the Washington, DC, version of the protest, pushed back on Johnson’s characterization, calling it “a love America rally.”

Whatever, dude. If I had to guess, I’d say the single largest demographic in attendance was retired public teachers and college professors. Why would I say such a thing? Because they couldn’t even spell their lame talking points correctly:

Trump, you’re kingdom must come down Trump, you’re kingdom must come down Oh I heard the voice of the people say, Trump, you’re kingdom must come down

Hatred, you’re kingdom must come down Racism, you’re kingdom must come down Poverty, you’re kingdom must come down Greed, you’re kingdom must come down

As if any further proof were needed, two of the nation’s biggest, most powerful, most hard-left unions — the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association — were helping to bankroll the event. The Daily Signal’s Tyler O'Neil gives us a sense of these unions’ real priorities:

According to federal records, between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023, the American Federation of Teachers spent only 27.4% of its funds on “representational activities,” such as negotiating for better salaries and benefits for member teachers. It spent 13.8% of its funds — $46.9 million — on political activities and another 2.1% on “contributions, gifts, and grants,” much of which went to left-leaning activist groups. Another 19.7% went to overhead, administration, and employee benefits.

Of course, it’s not like they have anything better to do. Like educating our children.

And what was Donald Trump doing this weekend — that is, when he wasn’t working to make our city streets safer and bringing peace to the rest of the world? Why, trolling those shark-jumping Democrats, of course.

And just think: There are still 1,188 days left in Trump’s term.