Which is bass-ackwards. Politicians (even the good ones) are kind of a semi-necessary scum film parasitizing their livelihood off those of us who create wealth. They’re kind of necessary, but the fact that we could exist without them, but not the other way around, and that we have to work for their pay as well as our own, should always be the first thought in everyone’s mind any time they think of a politician or other public employee. How can they even be entitled to the same degree of presumption of innocence as normal people, ever?
Ask Clarence Thomas. Ask Bob McDonnell.