It’s almost hard to remember now, but nearly a year ago, when Trump fired James Comey, my initial internal reaction was that this was a measure people on all sides would support. After all, Comey had been vilified up to that point by Democrats as the man who got Trump elected because of his supposedly improper behavior right before Election Day 2016.

I was naive to think this way, of course — the firing was instead perceived as an attempt to remove someone who was investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. As Comey’s book prepares for release next week, almost no one even remembers the earlier role he had played.