Robert Mueller is right.

Politics is ugly, and the uglier it gets, the more we need men like Robert Mueller.

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Politics looks ugly. It sometimes appears to be nothing more than a messy, sometimes nasty, mix of tug of war and food fight onboard a sinking ship in a hurricane. This ugly is aided and abetted by a media addicted to conflict and allergic to nuance.

Politics is ugly. But the ugliness is exactly because of imperfect men and women of good faith and determined will trying to do good things going up against men and women of bad faith and ill motives trying to stop them. It is of no use to say otherwise. The good men and women can’t always agree amongst themselves, while the bad are in lockstep with each other. Such a thing will always be ugly. Even some who are on the side of the angels want to use the tactics of the other side, thinking they will succeed with such tactics, because the other side already seems to have won. Yet others of goodwill become outraged over time and start to work towards punishing the other side, rather than getting things done. Getting to do good things is a beautiful thing, and those who attempt so get the ugly thrown at them quickly and in copious amounts by those who simply do not want those good things to happen. It is also of no use to revive the old admonishment not to wrestle with pigs: when a herd of pigs stands in your way, and is intent on impeding you, you may have to…