“How could it take so long for DOJ to finally reach a conclusion that was so obvious to so many people?”
The problem is that unlike criminal justice, political justice is not law-driven, it is media-driven. If the media creates no sense of scandal, nothing can happen.
The outrageous bias and blatant use of double standard that has infected the media since before Watergate holds as a given that the Democrats are the good guys, and Republicans are the bad guys. Democrats are compassionate and seek to help the poor. They want peace. They want fairness. They want to share. They want to protect the planet. Republicans are selfish racists who want war and suffering, and they want to poison the environment to boot. Everything in Washington DC is viewed through that lens, and with that double standard.
To give just one example, the Republicans seek to protect the unborn, the most vulnerable of all, from mass murder by the Left. For that, instead of being hailed by the media as champions and protectors, they are accused of taking away the rights of women to choose abortion!!
You see the same absurd double standard applied across all issues - until the media s somehow held to account, there will be no consequences for Democrats, no matter how corrupt.
Crimes committed by politicians are still crimes aren't they?
A very good and well stated assessment of the pervasive bias that inflicts the media, and indeed the body politic.
You nailed it.
One of the many reasons for this is the ideological and symbiotic relationship between the media and the Democrat Party.