I've been reluctant lately to revisit the Mueller-Russia issue. I'm bored with it frankly, but I deem this observation worth sharing.

Just when you thought the investigation was over-the Mueller report delivered, and the worst thing that could happen was a never-ending Pelosi-induced headache, Mueller decided to green light the Democrats to impeach Trump for obstructing the attempted coup to oust him from office.

As the President stated, Mueller is a "Never Trumper" to the end.

Maybe I'm a hypocrite because I was happy when the American people voted in Republican majorities in both houses to oppose the Obama agenda; he used his pen and phone to circumvent them the best he could. The criminally horrible Iran nuclear deal was one result. Of course complicit RHINOs like TN's Bob Corker enabled his agenda too. But I digress.

Now watching it all, and celebrating it all, will be the dictators who rule the worst and most oppressive regimes in the world. 

Today America confronts a trio of revision powers – Russia, Iran, and above all China – determined to replace America as the world's lone superpower or at least become legitimate rivals. They have joined forces to support the world's most oppressive and dangerous dictators from North Korea and Syria to Venezuela. Only America has the resources to stop them, but America must unite to get it done.

Now the bitterly divided government-and people may be impotent to act.

The danger we now face is that an America trapped in a perpetual political crisis, and a chief executive hobbled by a bitter impeachment battle, won't have the cache to prevent this new Axis, like its pre-World War II predecessor, from creating an authoritarian world order.

The shame is that Mueller could have used his statement on Wednesday to defuse that political crisis. He could have simply said, "Everything we have to say is contained in our report. We had to conclude there's no evidence of collusion with Russia in the 2016 election; my team, which included top Hillary supporters and leading Trump haters, could find no probable cause to make the case President Trump obstructed justice, either. For our nation's future, it's time for all of us to move on, as I have."

Unfortunately, that sort of nobility of spirit was beyond Bob Mueller. Instead, he took one last swipe at the president he despises, as he urged Congress to continue to look for crimes the facts say didn't happen – and the law says can't be proved.

Thanks to Mueller, impeachment by a Democrat-led Congress is looming possibility; the defeat of impeachment in the Republican-dominated Senate is just as certain. This process will satisfy no one; it will leave us more divided than ever, with an ever-diminishing faith in our governing institutions to secure justice or to handle a national crisis.

On the world stage, however, this leaves America in a far worse state.

China, in particular, will see America's weakness as their opportunity to checkmate Trump's trade and foreign policy initiatives, which are aimed at stopping China's drive to displace the United States as the world's superpower. The men in Beijing understand that Trump is the first president in a generation to "get it" about China's effort to create a new world order that depends on the Chinese economy, Chinese technologies, and China's grand strategic vision outlined the Communist Party document "Made in China 2025" – in other words, a president who has to be stopped in his tracks. 

A weakened Donald Trump will play directly into Beijing's plans. Even more insidiously, perpetual turmoil in Washington reinforces China's propagandistic campaign to the world that it, not America, has found the secret to democracy in the 21st century. Chinese party leaders extol their version of democracy as embodying stability and predictability, compared to the uncertainty and chaos of American democracy – a contrast which we're managing to confirm.

Now, some believe getting Donald Trump out of office is going to somehow restore faith in our political system, and clean the slate. Others –largely Trump supporters – think exposing the effort by high-level government officials, including in the FBI, to derail Trump's candidacy and then his presidency, will do the same thing, and allow the president to finally govern in peace.

Both sides think if they win this nightmare will be over. Both are wrong. Nobody will win this, least of all the embittered American people.

Democrats and Never Trumpers will never stop believing Trump's election was a swindle and the triumph of bigotry and hate. Trump supporters will continue to believe that impeachment is a swindle, and the triumph of the other side's lies and corruption.

Bob Mueller could have defused this bomb, but he didn't. He's even done his level best to inflame the passions on both sides.

America, not Donald Trump or the Never Trumpers, is going to be the big loser in what's coming. And America's enemies are looking like big winners.