Corruption was a real issue for many voters this year, but Democrats are already starting to overplay their hand — and the White House is pointing it out.

Even before the last polls closed, House Oversight Committee Chairman-to-be Robert Garcia posted “LAWYER UP” — warning that any and every Trump official could face investigation, public inquisition and potential prison.

Many others chimed in, with Jersey Rep. Analilia Mejia promising “to toss out subpoenas like Mardi Gras beads.”

White House Counsel Will Scharf is fighting back, telling Garcia: Cut the tough-guy act.

His letter reminds Garcia that Congress can’t simply investigate whatever it wants: House and Senate investigations require some legislative purpose; law enforcement is an Executive Branch power.

Nor can Congress use subpoenas and hearings in an attempt to harass public officials, or their families.

Yet that’s plainly in the offing: Even before Election Day, “moderate” Sen. Elissa Slotkin explicitly said Democrats should bully people out of working for the administration, or face investigation for that alone.

Reminder: This backfired on Democrats, badly, just a few years ago.

In 2021, Speaker Nancy Pelosi twisted the Jan. 6 Committee into a blatant show trial, with few protections for witnesses and (literally) scripted public hearings — red meat for the Democratic base that changed no minds.

Then came the lawfare against then-former President Donald Trump: the ridiculous kangaroo-court verdicts in Manhattan that tried to bankrupt him; the fiasco of Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani Willis’ circus prosecution; special counsel Jack Smith’s many outrageous fishing expeditions — all of it serving to elevate Trump and likely guarantee him the 2024 Republican nomination.

And, yes, Team Trump tried to return the favor with its own ham-handed cases against the likes of former FBI chief Jim Comey — yet Democrats who denounced those prosecutions are now plainly chomping at the bit to do the same.

The United States is no Third World country, where law-abiding citizens must fear interrogation and imprisonment if the “other side” takes power.

(Fun fact: Garcia’s family fled Peru under such circumstances, immigrating illegally to the United States, before receiving amnesty under President Ronald Reagan.)

No one in this nation is above the law — but no one is beneath it, either.

Garcia has plenty of legitimate topics for oversight that don’t involve targeting White House staff or the president’s whole family, let alone the clown show of exhuming the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Scharf is right. Congress should hold the White House accountable — but Congress must remember that it too is accountable to the Constitution, and that an endless cycle of partisan legal persecutions threatens to destroy the very democracy Democrats insist they’re fighting to save.