OPINION IN BRIEF

Victor Davis Hanson:

When the Mueller report found no collusion and no indictable grounds for obstruction of the non-crime of collusion, for a moment progressives suffered an identity crisis. The temporary paralysis was prompted by the terror that without a crusade to remove Trump, they might have to offer an alternative vision and agenda that would better appeal to 2020 voters. The Democratic establishment has become something like novelist Herman Melville's phobic Captain Ahab, who became fatally absorbed with chasing his nemesis, the albino whale Moby Dick. The great white whale once ate part of Ahab's leg, and he demands revenge — even if such a never-ending neurosis leads to the destruction of his ship and crew. Democrats can never forgive Trump for unexpectedly defeating supposed sure winner Hillary Clinton in 2016 and then systematically — and loudly— undoing the eight-year agenda of Obama."