"Legal, journalistic and political institutions exist to insist on some sort of accountability, even when public attention is in short supply. Political overpromising and evasion is bad enough as it is, without being forced to think that up is down and wrong is right. If this behaviour is simply overlooked then it will get worse, as has been the case in the United States."

All true. But what struck me most is that the USA has become the punchline for this kind of thing.

https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/scandals-cost-nigel-farage-dear-eventually-bdmqq5zrl