Bill Clinton presided over eight years of relative peace, seldom-matched prosperity, and good fiscal health. Yet, he is chiefly remembered for the ways in which he diminished the office of the presidency: a draft-dodging commander in chief, an unembarrassed public liar, a serial abuser of vulnerable women, a recipient of foreign help in an election campaign, and a purveyor of charitable fraud.

President Trump was long a big contributor to the Clintons’ campaigns and proudly hosted Bill and Hillary at his third wedding. For five years now, Trump has pretended to loathe the Clintons, while he imitates their many vices, without their compensating virtues of intelligence, education, and hard work.