I just don't really know how to respond to the OP. But I will give it a try.
Corruption is corruption. There is always some of it around. When we have IMO truly erred in putting Trumpkin in the WH is that in Trumpkin we have a man that does not have a single drop of the public servant's blood in him. As such the common good which within limits is the first order of business for the Federal Government gets literally no attention whatsoever.
Trumpkin is totally transactional and a totally transactional agent will always, 100% of the time be totally transactional for himself. Anything anybody else gets depends on their ability to support the transactional agent's ability to get his and as a consequence they will get theirs. While we often comment that Trumpkin runs whatever he is in, business or government like a crime family, the money end of his dealings work the same way as in a crime family as well. Everybody kicks upstairs to the bosses and all the bosses kick upstairs to the boss of bosses. The only difference is that in the political arena, sometimes it is currency as in money that gets kicked upstairs and sometimes it political currency that gets kicked upstairs.
So Hillary makes a good comparison for this argument as she was massively unpopular for a variety of reasons. However, she IS a public servant. Whenever considering someone for federal office, if you value the transactional agent over the public servant in the end even if you think you are winning, you will LOSE because you will always be fighting an uphill battle against the transactional agent's insistence on being transactional for his own account and he is the boss. YOU are not supposed to win that battle no matter who you are. Never mind the corruption end of it for corruption sake. Who will the person you are considering to put into federal government office, working for, the people or him or herself.
So all things considered, all arguments considered, all points of view considered, Hillary would have been a better President than Trumpkin could ever hope to be for the simple reason that the first order of business for Federal Government is the common good. That is why the National Defense and the National Security is the very first obligation of Federal Government. If you have a brain, you should always pick a public servant over a transactional agent for federal government office because the public servant at least fits the role. He is not a square peg you are trying to ram into a round hole.
All these arguments we end up having about corruption end up being whataboutism and this one did that corruptly and that one did this corruptly. Generally they are partisan false narratives. There is simply no possible way that Hillary would not have been a better President than Trumpkin. She might have been every bit as corrupt as Trumpkin potentially but still would have been a better President as she would as unfailing remember her commitment to common good just as unfailingly as Trumpkin remembers his commitment to his own good, or his own account.
Just look at how bad Trumpkin's clown show has gotten in a mere 2.5 years. He has stove-piped the WH so completely with none of the bosses even talking to each other that idiot Mick Mulvaney ends up taking the podium of the WH briefing room having no earthly idea how destructive to the case of his own President what he is about to say is going to be to his own President. That is just what a mob boss, the most transactional agent you are ever going to see does and would do no matter what role you put him into.
Trumpkin has Rudy Gulliani running around playing State Dept/Justice Dept, the Sec of Energy playing State Dept and Sondland a yokel who bought his EU Ambassadorship mucking about in Ukraine when Ukraine is not even in the EU and Vogel an Envoy all prioritized over the actual State Dept officials that have the knowledge and the actual responsibility. All that idiocy simply because it suits Trumpkin's transactional aspirations to have Rudy and the Three Amigos mucking about all over the place no matter how much damage they actually do to the reputation and the position of the United States in the world.
Just imagine Hilary doing something like that. In the first place, you can't imagine it. In the second place, the Right's heads would be exploding if she had somehow inserted a Rudy as some sort of personal servant into the workings of the StateDept/Justice Dept combined and mucked about all these other positions for her personal aspirations. We would never find some pieces of the Right's blown apart heads again the bits and pieces would be so tiny.
