> Watching a person's private life instead of the important public actions is tabloidism

I disagree. The private life reflects character and tells you in advance whether a person is trustworthy and what kind of decisions that person will tend to make. This is a very old truth and even the Romans knew that Caligulas make poor emperors.

The Klintonistas drowned America in a tidal wave of corruption and slime that was a perfect mirror reflection of their loathsome gutter-slime personal behavior and base venality as human beings. That they would give us NAFTA and worse was therefore rather predictable.