Special Counsel Bob Mueller has handed in his report, marking the effective end of the three-year Trump-Russia investigation. Hallelujah!

This means that Mueller firmly expects to file no more criminal charges, which pretty much confirms that all the media and political hysteria about his investigation was driven more by partisan wishful thinking than by anything resembling hard evidence.

And that hysteria used up far too much time and attention in a nation with plenty of real issues to worry about.

Yes, as much as possible of Mueller’s report should be released to the public, if only to reduce the inevitable conspiracy theorizing. We guarantee that various bitter-enders are going to start noting again that Mueller’s a Republican, as if that were news.

Sadly, even a report that clearly states that there’s zero evidence President Trump and his campaign team ever did anything wrong won’t bring an end to the nonsense.

The Democratic-controlled House is already starting its own “investigations,” which will be enough to launch hundreds of news stories about what they might find, and about what anonymous sources claim they have found.

But most Americans will learn a big lesson from how the chattering classes misrepresented the Mueller probe. The hysterics will be playing to ever-smaller audiences while the rest of the country moves on.