This afternoon, the world got a lesson in the difference between #TheResistance and how real people react. For 18+ months, the left has objected to everything that President Trump has said. If he said up, #TheResistance had to say down out of spite. If President Trump said East-West, #TheResistance reflexively said North-South.

Being part of #TheResistance is simple. It doesn’t require thinking. It just requires saying the opposite of what President Trump says. It only requires a vocabulary and a thesaurus. Today, the world caught a glimpse into how thinking people operate when Kim Kardashian met with President Trump to talk about something substantive — prison reform.

I don’t know whether this meeting will create momentum for legislation. What I’m certain of, though, is that Kardashian saw that President Trump isn’t like the person that the media portrays him to be. Unlike #TheResistance, President Trump is willing to listen to ideas that aren’t on his ideological checklist. (That’s mostly because he isn’t an ideology-driven politician.)

As President Trump sounds more reasonable and he demonstrates a willingness to listen, the more difficulty #TheResistance will have portraying him as evil or uncaring. The equation is simple. The more strident that #TheResistance becomes, the more reasonable President Trump looks. Another benefit to that dynamic is the sight of steam billowing off the Democrats’ foreheads whenever President Trump beats them by being reasonable.

To the Democrats’ dismay, Republicans look positively reasonable and willing to listen. All of Sen. Schumer’s diatribes and Adam Schiff’s mindless rants haven’t done a thing to prevent President Trump from keeping his campaign promises.