Bill Barr’s Departure Reveals the Hollowness of Trumpism

In most ways, it would be hard to find two men much more different than Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr: One is a slow-drawling anti-immigration fanatic from Alabama; the other is a dry, intellectually engaged bagpiper from New York. One spent his career on the fringes of conservatism before a sudden late-career elevation to the Cabinet; the other is a consummate establishment figure who led the Justice Department twice, three decades apart.

But both men ended up serving as attorney general to President Donald Trump. They were perhaps the two of Trump’s agenda, driven by their own ideological sympathies with the president.