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I remember there being a big wake-up call in this country after Watergate that finally got the message to everyone that politics were corrupt at the highest levels. It was (and remains) a watershed ... which is why - to this day - every single scandal is named "something-gate."
The shock and outrage about political corruption is not about it being new, but about it daring to continue once having been exposed. There's been a much more commonly American demand that corrupt shenanigans STOP, and far more outrage when it's shown they they have not.
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