Special counsel Robert Mueller submitted his completed report on his 22-month, multimillion-dollar Russia investigation on Friday, March 22, as reported by The New York Times. The report’s delivery to the Department of Justice (DOJ) brought the expansive investigation into allegations of election-related collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign to a place of finality, and the special counsel’s office will now shut down, according to The Washington Post.

The report’s completion marks the end of Mueller's high-profile investigation, one that has made headlines since he was appointed special counsel in May 2017, just after Trump fired FBI director James Comey amid an FBI investigation into whether or not the Trump campaign worked with Russians to illegally slant the 2016 election in Trump’s favor. (The FBI had already discovered a “far-ranging Russian-influence operation” in an inquiry launched months earlier.)

Mueller’s role and his potential to take down a president maligned by so much of the country earned him the title of “America’s new crush” and resulted in T-shirts and other memorabilia. Many were hopeful that Mueller could bring down Trump with a bombshell revelation that would get the president kicked out of the White House, if not land him in a trial.

But that’s not what happened. While Mueller’s full report is not yet public, what we know so far makes it seem like his probe uncovered plenty of wrongdoing, but possibly nothing that will get Trump kicked out of office. This anticlimactic conclusion and his report findings raise an important question: Can we stop obsessing over Russia now?

If we are looking for a bogeyman to explain what’s wrong with our country, we will continue to be disappointed, as anyone who had been lighting Robert Mueller prayer candles may be feeling right now. More than anything, the letdown of Mueller’s final findings as we understand them today is an affirmation of something for me: Donald Trump’s presidency is not an anomaly of U.S. politics in its monstrousness or the horrors that have unfolded because of it; it is the natural result of centuries of oppression and some people acting on a particularly dangerous strain of American belief in white nationalism.

What we currently know about Mueller’s findings was presented in a letter to Congress by Trump-appointed attorney general William Barr, who wrote that the special counsel found no evidence of collusion during his investigation. Additionally, Barr wrote that the DOJ would not pursue obstruction of justice charges against the president — even while saying the Mueller investigation found evidence of “on both sides” of the question of guilt or innocence — because the evidence to bring charges was insufficient.

We knew long before Friday's news that Russians interfered in the 2016 election. More than two dozen Russians were among those indicted during the course of Mueller's investigation, including 13 Russian nationals who are accused of starting a “troll farm” to impact the election and 12 Russian military-intelligence officers who allegedly hacked Democrats. Again, we already knew this, as these indictments were announced in 2018. Not one of those people is likely to face punishment, given that Russia and the U.S. have no operational extradition agreement in place.

That does raise serious questions about our election security, but as the 2018 midterms demonstrated, shady election dealings are by no means only a foreign threat; there are plenty of allegations of domestic electioneering that also need to be addressed.