The principal difference between Trump’s many scams and the rackets of the Clintons’ is that their extortions are socially-approved by neoliberalism and its connected class while Trump’s cross that line — they are too declassé, too low-rent, too blatant.

Only in Bizarro World could Democrats look at this and conclude that nothing is wrong at all with it.

Yes, sure, it’s all legal. It’s all above board. It crosses no line that matters to neoliberalism and its defenders.

But is it moral? Should we order a society this way? Should we condone a major politician’s family being allowed to take $18 million from the oh-so-venerable for-profit school industry?

Trump and Clinton are not the same. I am not arguing that. Trump (except in failing to fill his bombing-brown-people quota) would be a far worse president than Clinton.

However, pretending there’s nothing morally disgusting and indecent about their behavior and the entire system that enables it makes me wonder why it’s so important that people defend something that’s obviously wrong.