It’s easy to imagine Bret Stephens sobbing as he filed his latest column for the New York Times, but he deserves some credit for writing what is probably the most thoughtful piece yet on the news media’s ugly Russia belly flop.

Stephens, a Never Trump writer driven mad by the 2016 election, wrote Thursday that the special counsel’s finding that there was no Russia collusion and no obstruction of justice should force the media to recognize that the president isn’t a stupid monster after all.