It’s not enough that Democrats are starting an impeachment process over a ridiculous, convoluted accusation for reasons that are almost impossible to follow. Now their friends in the national media are trying to scare everyone into thinking President Trump will react by going on a shooting spree.

Liberal New York Times columnist Charles Blow ominously warned this week that “before Trump will allow himself to be chased from the temple, he’ll bring it down.”

On that same day, Thomas Edsall, previously the sole remaining voice of sanity on the Times’ op-ed page, used an entire column to publish the wild speculations of a bunch of supposedly smart people who apparently believe that Trump is set to overthrow the government in a military coup.

“We should not assume that either a 2020 election defeat or impeachment/conviction will remove Trump from the White House,” said Notre Dame professor emeritus David Leege. “As president, Trump has resisted any effort to curb citizen access to guns and ammo. He puts on a modest show of concern when a particularly bad gun massacre occurs but, in the end, he sees armed citizens as a significant personal asset.”

That was just the beginning of Leege’s psychic visions. He went on to question whether the armed forces would rally behind Trump in the event that he refused to exit the White House. “Coups are usually backstopped by colonels, not generals,” said Leege, perhaps in a dark room with only a flashlight used to illuminate his face. “Thus, major barracks could provide him with support. Probably his best strategy to keep all levels of the military loyal to him rather than to the Constitution would be to embroil us in a major war.”

In his own words, Edsall wrote that Trump appears “willing to burn the house down.” The evidence for that is apparently Trump having defended himself from what is nothing more than a naked power grab by House Democrats, describing it as “a COUP.”

The impeachment Hail Mary is of course not really a coup because Republicans should be able to stop the nonsense once it reaches the Senate — though you can always count on the Mitt Romneys and Jeff Flakes of the party to turn something easy into a difficult problem. But this whole thing is going to be a circus, and the media’s alarmism proves it.