The psyche of the Democratic Party is reflected in every single New York Times editorial. So to understand how frustrated they are at the moment, read the one published on Wednesday.

Right after House Democrats voted to impeach President Trump, the paper asked, “So why does it all seem so banal? The outcome so foreordained?”

The New York Times continued, carefully blaming everyone, but as usual, reserving a special condemnation for Republicans for not damning the leader of their party to hell.

It isn’t supposed to be this way. There’s plenty of blame to go around for the intense — really, infantilizing — degree of polarization that has overwhelmed American politics across the past 40 years. But the nihilism of this moment — the trashing of constitutional safeguards, the scorn for facts, the embrace of corruption, the indifference to historical precedent and to foreign interference in American politics — is due principally to cowardice and opportunism on the part of Republican leaders who have chosen to reject their party’s past standards and positions and instead follow Donald Trump, all the way down.

Gee, that does make removing him from elected office a little more difficult, doesn’t it?

You can almost hear the editors shouting: "I want an Oompa Loompa now!"

Well, in the words of Violet Beauregarde, "Can it, you nit!"

The truth is that there isn’t “plenty of blame to go around.” Democrats, on the record, declared their intent to impeach Trump even before Inauguration Day. It was Democrats who egged Robert Mueller on in the never-ending quest to find a Russia-collusion conspiracy to match their paranoid theorizing. It was Democrats who dragged Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh through the mud in his confirmation hearing. And it’s the Democrats who insisted on driving impeachment at 85 miles per hour over a phone call Trump had with the head of Ukraine just a couple of months ago, without compelling evidence that he did anything wrong. This helps explain why support for impeachment among independent voters has fallen throughout the process.

The “plenty of blame to go around” rhetoric is only used by the national media when the culprit is clear but inconvenient.

Back in 2017, James Hodgkinson, 66, sprayed bullets on a baseball field outside of Washington, D.C., where congressional Republicans were practicing, nearly killing Louisiana Republican Rep. Steve Scalise. The New York Times editorial board chalked the incident up to "vicious American politics,” even though we knew that Hodgkinson was a Democrat and a fanatical supporter of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who had run for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.

A bemused editorial in the Washington Post asked, "Who knows what mixture of madness and circumstance causes someone to pick up a gun and go on a rampage?" The paper then helped spread responsibility for the tragedy among everyone, saying that it should "cause a gut check about what passes for political discourse in this country." Except that would probably require every journalist to stop calling Trump a racist, so you know that isn't going to happen.

The willfully clueless Scott Pelley, then anchor of the CBS Evening News, ended one of his programs decrying unspecified "leaders and political commentators who set an example" for having "led us into an abyss of violent rhetoric."

Remember the kids of Covington Catholic High School, who the media framed as a bunch of white, privileged brats disrespecting an old American Indian man? New York Times columnist Frank Bruni could not keep up the initial media lie, but he nonetheless found equal fault in conservatives who had exposed it. “Some conservatives are gleeful about how this went down,” he wrote at the time. “But isn’t their vengeful joy its own rushed celebration, its own self-serving simplification of a complex sequence of events?”

Why, no, Frank, there’s nothing vengeful or joyous about defending children from a media that wants to embarrass them on a national scale. And no, there was no blame to spread around.

I know it’s frustrating for Democrats and the New York Times editorial board to see impeachment blow up in their faces. But it’s not everyone’s fault — it’s just theirs.