The criminal leftists call him that because he’s effective and he’s investigating things they want shut down. Their best way of defending themselves is to harass and harangue and then after months of denigration, then claim it’s old news and not worth talking about even when it’s literally breaking new stuff.
The conservative side of people who are calling him that is simply the missing pieces he’s not taking care of, praise for the Über-corrupt Wray and the pace that makes a slow snail look like Ussain Bolt.
Mr. Barr is a very effective Attorney General. Fighting the Deep State will take a generation. Small minded people who think that rooting out the embedded corruption can be turned around within a news cycle are simply not capable of understanding what is going on.
A perfect example is action of the new FISA Court lead judge who appoints a partisan deep stater to oversee the reforms of the FBI FISA processes. This could be either total naivete or a diabolic scheme. Who knows? Moreover, it doesn’t matter because the effect on honest government is the same. I know many people who live and breed in this swamp and I am frequently surprised when I find out how they are so ignorant about what is going on within their little world. When challenged, they usually say, “but, he is an Ivy Leaguer, he has a PhD, and he worked for Senator Foghorn, how could he do something wrong?”