Let us confess that Robert S. Mueller III’s performance was not what we wanted. We had hoped that he would be vital and eloquent, and, more importantly, that he would bring down Trump with some startling revelation of wrong-doing. In fact, he was not particularly stirring in his testimony (The Washington Post called him “Faltering.”)…

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 If you cast your mind back to the halcyon days of 2016, it’s just about possible to catch the last lingering sense of optimism.  Back then, Britain – reeling from the shock of the narrowly decided Brexit vote – and America, stunned by the wafer thin victory which gave Trump the White House, had a…

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