Hush Money to a Porn Star Might Be Okay With Some Voters

Most media outlets have settled on the moniker “hush money trial” to describe Donald Trump’s most immediate legal entanglement. (The Monthly uses this familiar tagline, too.) This makes sense on one level: Trump is facing 34 indictments for “falsifying business records in the first degree” in a scheme to violate campaign finance laws by paying for the silence of those who could have derailed his 2016 campaign without having to call them campaign expenses.

But Trump’s transgressions go...