Democrats hate James Comey. But they hate the fact Trump fired him even more.

The Washington Post reports:

Democrats think now-fired FBI Director James Comey cost them the presidential election. But hardly any Democrats in Congress are celebrating the fact that he's gone.

Comey was leading the investigation into whether Trump campaign associates colluded with Russia to try to help Trump win the election in 2016. For all of Comey's sins in the eyes of Democrats — re-upping Hillary Clinton's emails 11 days before the presidential election, not announcing the FBI's investigation into Trump earlier — he was the best FBI director they were going to get in the Trump administration.

And by "best," we mean most apolitical. As my colleague Aaron Blake wrote this week, Comey had a reputation as an aggressively apolitical public servant who, yes, sometimes made mistakes that upset the politicians (and potentially had massive political repercussions).

That James Comey.