Today’s lesson is that “character trumps ideology.” It’s something we should have known all along. It is the reason 2016 was so very depressing, since Hillary Clinton mistook character for her own self-interest, her great flaw all along.

In the 2008 election, as in most other contests, both sides had their flaws, but at least they were not mired in utter hypocrisy. In 2016, both sides were steeped to the gills in their own greed and lies, and by predation and lechery, if we count Clinton and her husband as the two-for-one package they had once promised.