Jesse Wegman, a NY Times editorial board member, wrote the above titled editorial which I excerpted here and linked to the entire op-ed below. Mr. Wegman didn't say it, but the Republicans behavior brings to mind the old quote, "they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory."
This was gift-wrapped campaign fodder for Republicans, and yet somehow it still wasn’t enough.
“You are part of the Praetorian Guard that guards the swamp out here in Washington, D.C., protecting the elites,” Representative Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin said to Hur, a deputy U.S. attorney general in the Trump administration.
Tom McClintock of California used his allotted time to complain about the classified-documents prosecution of Donald Trump, charging the Biden administration with using the rule of law as “a weapon to wield against political rivals and a tool of despotism.”
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All Republicans had to do was sit back and enjoy Hur’s one-sided report and the political damage it has inflicted on Biden. Why wouldn’t they?
Because, as has become clearer with every day of the Trump era, they don’t actually want to win. They don’t even care about classified-document retention. All they care about is their endless list of grievances about the swamp, the “deep state,” the elites — whatever today’s term is for the government that they control half of.