Former FBI Director James Comey isn’t a knight in shining armor, or even at times the strong silent type one would want in a leader. But he also should not be an out for sore losers, a piñata for feminists, or a place for the Democrats to dump their resentments after their presidential candidate — referred to at times as “the first woman president” — managed to fade in the stretch.

To Hillary Clinton and friends, Comey was the man whose letter to Congress on Oct. 28, 2016, gave her campaign the stab in the back from which it would never recover. Comey sent her polls tumbling, and her campaign into a tailspin from which it would never emerge.