4 Betrayals That Explain America

Every school child learns the story, even today. In September 1780, George Washington and his aide-de-camp, Alexander Hamilton, paid a hasty visit to Benedict Arnold, the hero of Fort Ticonderoga, only to learn that Arnold had turned traitor by defecting and attempting, albeit unsuccessfully, to hand the military garrison at West Point over to the British. “Arnold has betrayed us!” Washington cried. “Whom can we trust now?” Hamilton called it a scene of the “blackest treason.”

Since then, betrayal has made for some of the best stories in American politics. Sometimes, as in the case of Arnold, it involves disloyalty […]

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