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Commentary: We wanted a criminal mastermind. We got a swollen toady.

This is a dark time. A hard time. A time of disillusionment and potential despair. Because Donald Trump has proven not to be guilty of all we wished him to be guilty.

The Mueller Report. Liberal pundits on CNN and MSNBC immediately tried to put a Churchillian spin on it. (“This is not the beginning of the end but the end of the beginning.”)

What they did not do is admit that the agitation most progressives feel is that the Mueller Report fails to be what we had hoped it to be: a clear criminalization of everything ever done by the embarrassing president we hoped soon would be our impeached president.