E.J. Dionne: Will reform be the silver lining in a cloud of scandal?

Washington • Politics is regularly described in terms of “left” vs. “right.” But other binaries can be more relevant. “Forward” vs. “backward” often define a choice facing an electorate better than the standard ideological categories. And the most powerful face-off of all may be “reform” vs. “corruption.”Much commentary on the 2018 midterm campaign has focused on a drift or a lurch left in the Democratic Party, the meas