He did nail it.
“The Mueller investigation has to be seen in the context of a battle between the democratic powers of the people to choose their own representatives and the lawyers who actually run the government”
This is the core of it. Mueller is part of a conspiracy which was outraged that Trump would have the temerity to think that he could dislodge one of them - a permanent upper class of bureaucratic elites for whom “the law” is merely a tool in their box of control.
That is what they are doing to Trump now: using “the law” in a way that it was never intended to by the Anglo-Protestant founders of the federal union. Not to achieve justice in the case of a real crime but merely as a tool of coercion to deprive their political enemies of power.
Everything that 800 years of legal evolution from the Magna Carta was supposed to have driven out.
This is all evident now from the exposition of the conspiracy within the FBI but which we could all see by the tolerance of Clinton’s own behavior. Comey was the lead conspirator and should have been fired on 21 January 2017 at 0800.
That Trump waited was his own unfamiliarity with the government and the reasonable notion of wanting to have a fig leaf of internal investigation before doing what he KNEW had to be done: get the chief threat to him out of his administration.
We cannot wait for this to play out by tolerating it. That’s their game. Trump and his real allies must stop playing it. He knows that. But he must act soon. Mueller has already discerned that he is somewhat invulnerable, that they can play the threat of impeachment every time someone points out that he’s got nothing and indicting yet more people for obscure paperwork “crimes” isn’t going to change that. Mueller needs to be disabused of this notion of invulnerability, and we start with Rod Rosenstein for that: he was responsible for this, and he let it cross all legal boundaries, so he has to be dismissed and a neutral manager be put in place.
It’s either that or this will devolve into actual shooting, because the government will be seen as a farce.
It is ironic that Gandhi's success and Mandela's success were in large measure the result of judges who followed British common law precepts. Here in the U.S. we want to dispose of that common law. A further irony, for those who are fans of Scalia is that Scalia was not a big fan of the common law, preferring statutory law. He was much more of an authoritarian than a genuine conservative. It's the difference between the Napoleonic Code and US Constitutionalism - a heritage we are doing all we can to forget.