This should really, really, really go without saying, so I’m going to keep this as brief as possible: if you are legitimately upset that a 22-month investigation backed by nearly 3,000 subpoenas and 500 witnesses’ testimony found that neither President Trump nor any of his campaign cronies colluded or conspired with a foreign adversary to rig our 2016 elections, you have a problem.
It runs much deeper than the clown show in the White House. If politics have addled your brain so deeply that you wish the leader of the free world were selling out the bulwark of our democracy just so you could score a partisan point against him, then you need help.
It’s obviously fair for those who’ve been skeptical of the Russia probe the whole time to withhold total judgment until the Mueller report is disclosed in its entirety. But many of those who have hung their wildest hopes and dreams on Trump’s indictment and removal from office now cannot accept the conclusion: “the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government.” They need to take a long, hard look in the mirror. Trump Derangement Syndrome is real, and the first step to curing it is admitting you have a problem.
[Read: Attorney General William Barr’s letter on Mueller final report]
“Until Mueller’s full report is released to the public, we may never know the extent to which Trump and his allies worked with Russia to alter the outcome of the 2016 election,” says Stacey Abrams. But she also still thinks that she won a gubernatorial race in Georgia that she actually lost by more than a full percentage point.
The rest of you don’t have to be like this. You can simply return to resisting Trump the old-fashioned way: criticizing him as a president and person, not clinging to some deranged fantasy that the president gave Vladimir Putin the nuclear codes.
