Those who noted Mueller’s missteps were pummeled with insults from those clinging to the vestiges of institutionalism. Those who had studied or lived through autocratic consolidation screamed about these missteps like spectators on the sidelines of our own demise. To point out the failures of the Mueller probe—many of which were caused by the Trump administration’s purges and threats; but some of which were caused by the Mueller team’s poor judgment—was to become a heretic. But it’s better to be a heretic than a liar. A heretic these days is a temporary occupation: the sin lies in telling the
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