The Trump White House is lavishly and obviously corrupt to a degree unprecedented in modern American political history. Yes, we can drag back to Warren Harding and Teapot Dome, or Ulysses Grant’s multifarious scandals, or Andrew Johnson and the spoils system’s corrupt and corrupting influence, and yes, all presidential administrations are touched by corruption, though generally in trivial, marginal ways. In the modern era, we’ve had only one real standout: Richard Nixon. Until now.
