Well, Hanson’s a historian, so he’s looking at how things might get judged 50 years down the road, but really, most people in the here and now have no idea about these scandals, because the media is silent, and the DOJ won’t prosecute.
The Obama Crowd just got VD, Hansoned that is!
Hanson is an honest historian. In the past he said he was a Democrat but I don’t know if he still considers himself one. Professional historians are mostly in academia and are mostly Democrats. The most recent Presidential poll, from 2017, of 91 historians and other scholars, ranked Obama #12 among all of the Presidents—more overrated than Kennedy at #8. I wonder if the scandals will cause Obama’s ranking to drop—I would guess not, or only a little. Meanwhile, G. W. Bush was ranked #33 (lower than Carter).
The historical imprint of the scandals can only be memorialized by high level prosecutions going all the way to the top.
Any imprint will leave a large permanent mark only if any of the charges rise to treason.