Opinion | DOJ’s move to take over Trump’s defense should have us shouting from the rooftops - The Washington Post

There has been a tendency over the years to romanticize the corruption of the old political machines. You often hear: “At least they got stuff done.” Politicians involved in what George Washington Plunkitt, the legendary 19th-century leader of New York’s Tammany Hall, called “honest graft” are cast as gleeful cynics who were refreshingly candid about their motivations. But corruption is a dagger aimed at republican government.
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