Well, no.  It wasn’t.

But to hear Ann Coulter tell it, it was awfully close.

Just to be clear, this has nothing to do with politics.  Hardly anyone thinks that Donald Trump’s immigration plan is viable, no matter how much it may appeal to hardliners.  It probably would require a constitutional amendment, it would certainly take half a century and over 100 billion dollars to implement, and it would effectively make Mr. Trump unelectable — if he isn’t already.

But none of that is the point.

What is absolutely clear, beyond any doubt or debate is this:  Donald Trump’s plan is not the greatest political document since the Magna Carta.

No matter what Ms. Coulter says.

This is the same kind of irresponsible hyperbole that turns every ideological opponent into a Nazi, a terrorist, a rapist, or a child molester.  It shows the same kind of disregard for history that led Ms. Coulter to attempt to resurrect Joseph McCarthy as a fallen hero in place of the paranoid pit-viper that he was.  And it’s the same kind of disregard for language and reality that allowed Al Sharpton to laud Bill Clinton as “the first black president,” that enabled Bill Clinton to redefine the word “is,”  and that lies at the heart of the political correctness that Ms. Coulter herself (correctly) abhors.

To brand every antagonist a Nazi is to devalue the horror of the Holocaust and to insult its millions of victims.  To call newspaper columnists and television hosts terrorists shows a vile lack of empathy for the victims of 9/11 and Oklahoma City.  And to suggest any comparison between the Magna Carta and a political platform that is 90% grandstanding and 10% policy is to muddy the waters of logic and reason whey both are clouded enough already.

What an insult to the Summa Theologica, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man, and the Emancipation Proclamation.  What a mockery of political history.

“Words, words, words,” wrote William Shakespeare.  When we don’t respect them, when we twist them to gain cheap rhetoric advantage without regard for accuracy or authenticity, we become complicit in accelerating the Orwellian doublethink that is already eating away at the civil discourse that is the foundation of a functioning democracy.