In today’s Washington, even the rule of law goes through the partisan wringer
was a criminal conspiracy between Donald Trump and the Russians to tilt the 2016 election—that would mean that a sitting U.S. president would be credibly accused of something very close to treason.
Twenty-four hours after Attorney General William Barr announced his summary of Mueller’s findings, Washington’s main players continued to stew and snarl in ways that suggest the historical significance of his inquiry will lie partly in his conclusion but just as much in the fractious way it is being received.
Forty-five years ago, after Watergate resulted in Richard Nixon’s resignation, even Republicans joined in the ritual sermonizing about how the episode proved the primacy of law. No doubt even in those days there was ample pretense beneath the piety—of course Democrats were gloating and Republicans were plotting payback. But the very fact that they bothered to pretend revealed a basic respect that American political culture was on the level.
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