One extreme part of the anti-Trump “resistance” is outrage, including death threats, against Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai because he wants to roll back the Obama Administration’s regulation of the internet. Senate Democrats are now whipping up this base ahead of a phony vote on Wednesday, and the ironies are many.

Senate Democrat Ed Markey of Massachusetts and colleagues are forcing a floor vote to “save” something called “net neutrality.” That foggy concept has become in practice regulating the internet...