Democrats’ Trump-era hysteria struck again this week, with at least one senator offering an unhinged call for the recall of US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell for an imaginary offense.

In a Breitbart News interview last weekend, Grenell said he wanted to empower European conservatives who are “experiencing an awakening from the silent majority.”

“I think there is a groundswell of conservative policies that are taking hold because of the failed policies of the left,” he noted, adding that a lot of Europe’s conservatives have reached out to him.

He’s a Republican serving under a Republican president. That he sees European conservatives as kindred spirits is no shock. But Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum decided it was a secret message to neo-Nazis, because Breitbart is “the Web site whose comment section was the original breeding ground for alt-right white nationalism.”

This soon got ginned up into claims the ambassador was trying to undermine German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s (shaky) government. The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jeanne Shaheen (NH), compared Grenell’s opinion to Russian “meddling” in the 2016 election and said the prez should recall him.

“The United States does not accept foreign meddling in our elections, and we shouldn’t have an ambassador attempting to intrude in another country’s political affairs,” Shaheen said.

Other pols, and editorial boards, joined in the outrage, undermining US foreign policy by making a scene over a fake issue. Nice.