The anti-climactic public release of the Mueller Report after two years, with some redactions and the AG Barr press conference, teases out answers to some queries and churns fresh unsettled ones. For example, what’s next and where?

Competing interpretations aside, the yield across the spectrum appears to be a mixture of anxious disappointment, severe angst and deep unease at some of the sordid revelations. The direct and in-between-the-lines narrative reflects a psycho-drama worthy of a Grade B movie, were the stakes not about the operation of the Oval Office and the governance of the nation. The nation seems trapped in its own place in history and time, spinning as it were in a cyclotron with every “breaking news” twitter feed.