Gov. Pritzker says he “smells a rat” in Special Prosecutor Robert Hur’s report on his investigation of alienation of classified documents by Biden, and I too smell a rat. The business about Biden’s age and mental acuity is an obiter dictum that has really nothing to do with Biden’s guilt or innocence. It was wholly inappropriate and there can be, I believe, only one explanation for its inclusion, it is a right-wing dirty trick.

I’m sad to say that I have come to have my doubts about Merrick Garland. I’d thought his apparent dilatoriness and lack of energy in prosecuting traitorous conspirators against the United States’ government were signs of caution. But I am beginning to wonder if they flow from indifference and cowardice.

We have prosecuted the foot soldiers of the Big Lie Conspiracy, but its originator and leader and those who advised him and urged him on are still at large. If Trump and his associates are not prosecuted and condemned for what they have done, the fascist takeover of the United States will continue apace. This sad end of our American government would suggest either that democracy cannot defend itself against its adversaries or that the American people are too sybaritic and childish to maintain a democracy.