Heartbreak and the Mueller Report

It's been over a week since Special Council Mueller announced that he was not making any further indictments and it's been nearly a week since Attorney General Barr released a four-page summary of Mueller's report with the conclusion that no one in the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians to win the election or obstructed justice to end the investigation. This came as no surprise to Trump supporters who always viewed the investigation as an attempt at a coup. On the other hand, the left greeted the news that there would be no indictment of President Trump or his family with literal tears. In the days since Barr's summary was released they have fixated on the idea that there must be something hidden in the full report. I've seen speculation that there's a road map for Congress to use to impeach the President and remove him from office.

This is highly unlikely. If Barr had mis-characterized the report then certainly Mueller would have said so publicly. So why is the left so reluctant to believe that the legally-elected president of the United States won his office legally?

Part of the answer is the irrational hatred that the left has for Republican presidents in general and Trump in particular. They can't stand to see him in office and had been counting on the report to remove him. Moreover, a lot of people on the left wanted the accusations to be true. Thank about what it would mean if Trump needed Russian assistance to win the election.

Had Trump actually colluded with the Russians then it would have been the end of the Republican Party. Not only would Trump be removed but there would be demands that Vice-President Pence appoint a Democrat as his replacement then resign himself along with all of the Republicans in Congress. The Republican Party would be reduced to a smoldering heap with the Democrats accusing any of them who won an election of having been helped by Russians.

That's what the left was really hoping for - a result that made them the only party in the United States. From then on, the only races would be between moderate-left and far-left.

Those soaring hopes went crashing to the earth with the announcement of Trump's innocence but so strong was the desire that they have now convinced themselves that the full report has evidence that was somehow hidden from Barr but will still serve to bring down Trump and the Republicans.