ROGER KIMBALL: THE BARR IS RAISED. Many will be furious at the Mueller report’s findings. That’s a big problem for America:

But here is the existential issue that the report confronts us with. William Barr observed at one point that ‘all Americans can and should be grateful to have [the president’s innocence] confirmed.’ And yet many people, far from being grateful, will be enraged. And that is a huge problem for the Republic.

What has happened over the past two-plus years is a fundamental attack on the legitimacy of our democratic republic. Tactical partisan maneuvering has overwhelmed the institution of presidential elections. Note that this is a one-party party. It probably started in earnest with the election of George W. Bush in 2000. Al Gore withdrew his concession and put the country through months on legal wrangling. Republicans were unhappy when Barack Obama was elected in 2008 and again in 2012. But there was no question of his legitimacy. But when Donald Trump won in 2016, the sort of antidemocratic forces that beset George Bush had mutated from an angry squad of activists into an army of deniers.

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Related: ‘The look on their faces’! Watch Mary Katharine Ham torch media for ‘gaslighting’ with their evolving ‘collusion’ narrative.

Exit quote: “I hope nobody missed leg day because carrying these goal posts are going to be very heavy.”

Heh, indeed.™