Sunday, March 24, 2019

The wrong crime

Barr's summary of the Mueller report has been delivered. The grifter king is celebrating. Perhaps all all along it was just Russia doing everything it could to weaken our system, and his team doing everything it could think of to secure victory (and profit). No coordination desired or required. The many skeletons in other closets made him nervous as the investigation proceeded, guilty coverups of some things appearing as guilty coverups of others, but as long as it could be defined as about one thing he didn't have to do, he might squeak through, and perhaps he has. Do we owe him an apology? Perhaps. But he owes the nation many. We know enough from what he's done since assuming office to know he constitutes a threat to the rule of law and the institutions of democracy. Nothing matters to him but his own survival and he remains willing to attack and undermine the system in any way he thinks necessary to assure that end. That he undermines it for his own reasons, not because he's doing the bidding of some foreign power, hardly makes the situation better! If there's an upside, the system works: impartial investigations go where the evidence leads. Let's see that evidence, and what else can be found in investigations of ongoing corruption. The threat is real - damage continues to be done to American values and reputation - and there's much we don't yet understand about it.