It wasn’t just a made-for-TV moment, it was engineered to go viral on social media. Congressional Democrats insolently sitting on their hands after President Donald Trump asked those who believe that the first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal immigrants, to stand. When Democrats didn’t, Trump admonished them, “You should be ashamed of yourself.”

One can argue that it wasn’t fair for Trump to use Democrats as political props during his State of the Union address, but politics isn’t fair. As Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s (D-VA) response showed minutes later, it was also a fair assessment of the Democratic Party’s continued inability even to pay lip service to what is needed to secure our borders and protect our sovereignty.