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This is actually a decent article on the outstanding & high-impact political reporting being done by @theintercept under its superb DC Bureau Chief @ryangrim. Whoever wrote the click-baity headline doesn't seem to understand journalism's purpose, but the article itself is good:
It's also bizarre how many people continue to speak as though the Mueller Report found a sprawling Trump/Russia conspiracy & therefore those of us who were skeptical about it from the start (as opposed to those who bought into the conspiracy theory) have been shamed.
It's also bizarre how many people who decide to work in DC in both politics and journalism are such cowards that they can only express their views while hiding behind anonymity. This is an old pathology but one that still reflects how craven Washington culture is.
MUELLER REPORT FINDS VAST CONSPIRACY BETWEEN TRUMP AND RUSSIA TO INTERFERE IN 2016 ELECTION. This is the headline huge numbers of journalists both believed and fantasized was coming. OK, fine; we all have wishes. But it's creepy how they now act like this actually happened. 
It seems clear that DC Democrats and their key media allies genuinely believe in crucial parts of their brains that the Mueller Report vindicated their Trump/Russia conspiracy theories rather than demolished them. That level of reality-denial among powerful factions is scary.
