Trump may have been indicted, but it’s not time to pop the champagne

If you heard former President Trump was indicted and immediately popped the champagne cork, you might want to set that bottle on ice.

After years of patiently waiting for accountability at the highest levels, news of the first-ever criminal indictment of a former president feels like validation. In some ways, it is. It’s an undeniably huge deal; so big that it will certainly be marked in the history books for future generations to study — assuming, of course, those history books aren’t banned or burned by Republicans first.

But digging deeper, this indictment is not the moral or legal victory Americans need and deserve. There’s also a decent chance it could do more harm than good.

Details of the current indictment out of New York remain largely unknown,…