Without a doubt, it is a terrible thing that on the eve of an election a candidate for the highest office in the land is undergoing an FBI investigation for actions which may have compromised government secrets, and which she herself has admitted were a mistake. It is, however, an even more terrible thing that she is running against an adversary who — through longstanding patterns of fraud in his business practices and an undeniable aversion to the rule of law in his public pronouncements — would be a catastrophe for the country, both as its chief law enforcement officer and as its commander in chief.