Too Good to be True: Generation X Men and Superman Highlight

Watergate seems to be definitive for my generation. But what has always struck me as curious is how much Watergate has been coded as a symbol of how hopelessly flawed and untrustworthy our leaders are rather than celebrated as an instance where the system worked to expel something toxic from power. Framing it the former way was a choice, one made collectively at a time when no one wanted to risk looking naive by endorsing the latter take.