Democrats have to really get out of their own way with this belief that Republicans will give them credit if they chose Republicans to do things. Republicans turned Republican Mueller into a Democrat for going after Trump. This is all on Merrick Garland. He is the worst AG we've had.
I think most of this report was gratuitous. And that comment about his dead son was beyond the pale.
Democrats do that because they are running on the 1992-present coalition of appealing to moderates. It's why Carter, Clinton, Obama and Biden have rightwing FBI chiefs...
Democrats have been seen as weak on defense/crime/law since 1968. Hence why Republicans won so much from 1968 to 1988. The Dems should have tamed the antiwar/civil rights people a bit,
because white moderate America buys into Republican framing, hence why Republicans can squeak a victory like they did in 2000 and 2016. Biden is a moderate white guy from Scranton who came out of the civil rights movement as a moderate Democrat trying to appeal to white moderates who aren't hostile to justice, etc. but don't like disorder...Biden appeals to the real silent majority moderates, not really Trump.
Italian and Irish whites in Boston and NYC in the 60s and 70s are the types that Biden grew up with, and guys like him and Bill and so on had to thread the needle and moderate in the center to win.
The youthful Dem base today is going to end that coalition, Jewish moderates are going to have to adapt to the divisions in the party.