E.J. Dionne: Our big political cheating scandals

Washington • Cheating isn’t winning. We try to teach this to our children, but politics provides the opposite lesson.Political cheating allows those who engage in it to amass far more power than they have a right to in a constitutional democracy. Its most sophisticated form isn’t ballot-box stuffing but the use of indirect means by those in authority to perpetuate themselves in office.Within 48 hours, Americans were offered two fast courses in the politics of cheating.Late Monda