Commentary
Sometimes I think, to conjure the old spiritual, that special counsel John Durham has “the whole world in his hands.” By that, I obviously don’t mean Mahalia Jackson’s transcendent version that could make the most adamant atheist drop to his knees.
In Durham’s case, it’s considerably more secular. Nevertheless, the special counsel is dealing with something extraordinarily significant.
He holds in his hands the future of democratic government under the law, republican (small r) or otherwise, as we know it—if not forever, for the foreseeable future.
Although he’s been accused of going slowly—how could it have been otherwise, really, with COVID lockdowns, even though unjustified—so far he is doing a remarkable job. He has demonstrated how the colossal and pernicious lie that Donald Trump was in collusion with Russia originated with people working for the Hillary Clinton campaign (via a made-up connection to a Russian bank) that was approved and later promulgated by Hillary herself….