Where would the Left be without contrived hysteria?

President-elect Donald Trump is simply going about the business of building his new cabinet, which happens to include three military generals: retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, whom Trump tapped to head the Department of Homeland Security; retired Gen. Mike Flynn was chosen as a national security adviser; and James "Mad Dog" Mattis is Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense. 

It seems reasonable that one would choose high-ranking military officers, rather than, say, postal dispatchers, to deal with matters of national security. In fact, even military-averse Obama did precisely the same thing. The Washington Examiner pointed out in a piece Wednesday, that in 2009, President Obama's initial team included, "retired Marine Gen. Jim Jones as national security adviser; retired Army Gen. Eric Shinseki as veterans affairs secretary; and retired Navy Adm. Dennis Blair as director of national intelligence."

While no one descended into a paranoid rage over Obama's military picks in 2009, today, the same mealy-mouthed Leftists are in the throes of another collective panic attack. Surely Trump is plotting a military coup. Surely, we'll all soon be trampled under the jackboot of Martial Law. 

To showcase their latest hysteria, the blog Heat Street compiled a selection of Tweets from mainstream media members, all of whom are currently on "junta" watch: 

Let us also not forget the glaringly obvious fact that to even invoke the term "junta" is an insult of the highest order. Gens. Flynn, Mattis, and Kelly, along with all of our men and women in uniform, have sacrificed life and limb for this country and deserve respect -- not that the Left is familiar with term.

The irony, of course, is that the same people disparaging these generals now are the ones constantly fawning over actual juntas in the Third World banana republics they so wish we would emulate.