It's Worse Than a Crime, It Was a Mistake

We now have a a summary of Robert Mueller's report.

It's pretty much what most people who weren't trying to alibi their own incompetence in 2016, and the people who melted down like Mort Sahl did in 1963 (I'm talking to you, Maddow).

Basically, there is little evidence of direct coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, but that there are concerns about obstruction of justice.

So, something may yet come of this, but something may not.

The bigger picture, though, is that the Republican wing of the Democratic Party, hitched its wagon to "Russiagate", in order to ignore the pervasive incompetence the party establishment.

Now, it appears that Trump, who is almost certainly both mobbed up and a bunco artist, has effectively been immunized from any accusations of wrongdoing for the 2020 election.

This was a big unforced political error.