I think it’s two things. One the one hand it has a lot to do with decades of negative news reporting and political attacks targeted at her and Bill. What they cover now as “scandals” are only designed to evoke that prior era when we were inundated with Clinton pseudo-scandals. Never mind that the Whitewater…

It’s certainly what makes him marketable. Seriously - imagine Trump not being an inveterate asshole to everyone around him. Would he even have been in the top 5 of the GOP primary?... people don’t vote for him because of his policies, which as far as I can tell are non-existent - they seem to like this aspect of him.

A taco truck on every corner

That’s just it - you’re a non-American, so you can’t possibly understand the weird, illogical bullshit half of the country that turns everything into a morality play about their issue du jour. You’re not missing anything!

Except the other guy is still in Brazil. The outcome for him is much shittier.

Right.