The fact of Sessions’ recusal makes it hard to argue the point, but I’ll try anyway:
I just think “jailing a bunch of these fascists” was always far easier said than done.
Case in point: as strong and un-Sessions-like as Barr is, he hasn’t done it either, and he enjoys huge advantages that Jeff Sessions never had - not the least of which is the fact that Trump has now been inoculated by a thorough 2 year cavity search and by submitting to it has proven to reasonable Americans that he is no Nixon. When Sessions (supposedly) had his chance, Trump hadn’t yet proven himself - I don’t think he wanted Sessions to throw anyone in jail.
I think scape-goating is sometimes a political necessary - and I don’t fault President Trump at all for doing it - but some day, perhaps in his memoirs, I hope he pulls the hapless Jeff Sessions our from under the bus.
I agree that actually jailing people is tougher to pull off than it seems. My beef with Sessions is he didn’t even try.
You have to send messages. If DemoKKKrats/antifa creeps had to spend lots of $ to get acquitted, that alone would have been just one impediment to more mischief.
But I agree that until we know for sure what happened with Sessions, the history of this era will never be complete.