If you read Dan's piece on FBI Director James Comey's announcement, you know what I think. The decision not to indict Hillary Clinton is the moment at which the United States crossed the line which separates a "dysfunctional mess" from a genuine "third-world-style banana republic." We no longer adhere to the rule of law or, if we do, we apply it differently to different classes. The political class operates with one playbook, while the rest of us are tied to another, much harsher, set of rules.
I mean, for God's sake, the first ten minutes of Comey's address sounded like he was leading up to an indictment. He outlined, with excruciating specificity, her many prosecutable actions. Then, he did a 180 and went the other way. As Andrew McCarthy of the National Review wrote: