“In the end, the Flynn pardon is perhaps best understood as one final act of venal, malevolent, retributive warfare waged by Trump on the country that just rejected him, and even on the rule of law itself, which he could not ultimately subvert to quite the degree he’d hoped.
Humiliatingly rejected in an election where an unprecedented 80 million people voted against him and on track to lose by as many as 7 million votes, Trump has seen his effort to steal the election outright implode into ignominy and vaudevillian buffoonery.”