Mueller didn't fail. The country did.

[demmiblue]

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I worry that we — the media, voters, Congress — are dangerously unserious when it comes to preservation of our democracy. To spend hours of airtime and write hundreds of print and online reports pontificating about the “optics” of Mueller’s performance — when he confirmed that President Trump accepted help from a hostile foreign power and lied about it, that he lied when he claimed exoneration, that he was not completely truthful in written answers, that he could be prosecuted after leaving office and that he misled Americans by calling the investigation a hoax — tells me that we have become untrustworthy guardians of democracy.

The “failure” is not of a prosecutor who found the facts but might be ill equipped to make the political case, but instead, of a country that won’t read his report and a media obsessed with scoring contests rather than focusing on the damning facts at issue.

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Trump reads from the same hymnal of disinformation and recites the same slander of democratic institutions that 20th-century totalitarians deployed, yet too many in the media call him the “winner” because Mueller did not pass their ridiculous tests (e.g. add new information, persuade Republicans).

Trump’s authoritarian liturgy, like that of many 20th-century despots, also co-opts religion, abandons universal liberal values including a free press, substitutes corporate cronyism for democracy and excludes from the body politic those who disagree with the government. Given his druthers, this president would exile critics just as dying colonial regimes would send off dissidents without hope of physical return.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/25/mueller-didnt-fail-country-did/

[octoberlib]

1. An excellent op- Ed

[Zoonart]

2. Well said.

Anybody following what is happening in Puerto Rico? The Governor will resign nexy week. Hundreds of thousands in the streets. Constant pressure by the prople... IN PERSON... is what it takes.

[jcgoldie]

3. He may not have failed...

...but he sure has remained in an army crawl covering his ass when he was the single person best suited to stand up and speak out to protect the rule of law.

[Act_of_Reparation]

4. Rose colored glasses, friend.

Expecting a better, more engaged American public is a long wait for a train that won't come. Karen and Al two doors down aren't upset because Karen and Al are the products of a system that encourages and rewards apathy and mediocrity.

Bob Mueller, on the other hand, knows better.

[UniteFightBack]

5. They made sure to pick a straight laced by the book guy for this job. Pretty sure a pitbull would

of been installed if it were a puke picking and a Dem President. With that being said I don't blame Mueller for being who he is but it sure is fucking annoying that he stays within the bounds but these fucks are tearing down our country and don't give not a shit about the rules.

Of course the country failed because there is an occupant in the white trash house that was helped to get there by a large tract of american fools. I sincerely hope that enough of the fools have realized WTF did I do and send a clear message to this man in 2020 that we ain't having this bullshit any more. If he wins again my opinion of America will drastically change....but for now I remain hopeful and confident.