Liberals are freaking out all over the place, and it is absolutely delicious to watch.

They (liberals) are exactly the same people they were on November 8. Everything they had the day before — their smarts (or lack thereof), their work ethic, their skills, their passions, their vision — is still there. Trump’s election didn’t do anything to them. And yet they’re reacting to the election like they’ve been physically assaulted.

The people who do illogical things like panic over elections do so for reasons that are logical to them. To us, they’re insane, but to them, it is the only logical thing to do in response to what’s going on.

They may have some reason to panic, though, because for the last 16 years, progressives have used culture as a weapon against their ideological enemies. Don’t want to bake a cake because of your faith? Too bad, we’ll sue your business out of existence. Want to host a kickoff dinner for one of America’s largest trade shows? Not if we have anything to say about it, bucko. Want to be a Christian and have a cable TV show? Good luck with that.

“You will be made to care!” has been the standard attack of the Democrats in their war against traditional values, but that is changing, and quickly. With Trump, progressives are now faced with a national leader who doesn’t really care what liberal society says and thinks about him. Trump has been the butt of jokes from east-coast liberals since Reagan was President, and he is still pretty much the same outspoken person today as he was back in 1987. Not only does Trump not care about what the establishment media says about him, with the dawn of the age of social media, he doesn’t have to use the establishment media to get his message out.

Trump’s election neutralizes the most effective weapon the progressives have had at their disposal, so of course liberals are now panicking. For 16 years, ever since the days of the Dixie Chicks and “Bush lied, soldiers died!” progressives have tried to set the cultural agenda for this country, and for the most part, they’ve succeeded. As it stands now, culture, along with education, are the only two cultural forces left to progressives that can used as a bulwark against the overwhelming superiority of Republicans in politics at both the state and national level, and culture may be waning fast as Trump and the force of his personality moves into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

As of January 21, the future of the Democratic party as a nationwide political force will rest upon a handful of antiquated socialists and a few regional, coastal (probably corrupt) politicians.

No wonder they’re panicking.