New at Reason: Stop Waiting for the Trump/Russia Smoking Gun

No matter how many “huge, if true” stories collapse, no matter how many Nunes memos fizzle on the launch pad, partisans on both sides of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump/Russia investigation keep banking on some huge exogenous event to settle the issue once and for all. Such pining, argues Matt Welch, absolves politicians and voters alike from responsibility not only to make a judgment about the president’s actions, but to consider how their own behaviors got us to the point where electing a bull in a china shop seemed better than sticking with a discredited status quo.

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