Great news, America: Chelsea Clinton is writing a book! In September, Penguin Random House will publish It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired, & Get Going! The book, according to its enthusiastic press release, “will address some of the world’s most challenging issues including Poverty, Homelessness, Food Insecurity, Access to Education, Gender Equality, Epidemics, Non-Communicable Diseases, Climate Change and Endangered Species.”

Whew! That is a long, important, and ponderous list. It is so long, important and ponderous that the excited intern who typed up that press release apparently forgot the basic writing rule that you don’t need to capitalize Broad, General Terms like “food insecurity” and “non-communicable diseases.” When you do, you see, it makes those terms look Slightly Farcical, not More Important.

Regardless, let’s move on to this sure-to-be monumental book, written by a noted expert on absolutely everything — and by “expert on absolutely everything,” I mean “expert on making $600,000 a year for doing pretty much nothing at all.” Anticipating the frenzied, clawing-at-the-bookstore-doors reception It’s Your World will undoubtedly inspire (or, as in the case of Hard Choices, her mother’s book, a subdued, mildly depressed chorus of crickets) Chelsea also wrote a helpful “open letter” to her fans. This open letter, available on the publisher’s website, includes the following line: “We have a saying in my family — it’s always better to get caught trying (rather than not try at all).”

Full disclosure: When I first read that sentence, I laughed out loud. Next, I read it two more times, just to make sure it was not some glorious figment of my imagination. “Get caught trying?” Who makes this their family motto? Concerned that I was missing the popular resurgence of this wise old adage — a saying that ranks right up there with “There’s more than one way to obliterate an old e-mail server” and “If the silverware is missing, Sandy Berger’s pants are a-jangling” — I decided to Google “get caught trying.” If you’re looking for lots of advice on how to do things like hide an affair from your spouse, illegally sneak over the border, or fight off a wild crow that is trying to eat your lunch, I suggest you do the same.

Here’s the thing: If you “get caught” doing something, it implies that you are doing something secretive, underhanded or out-and-out bad. What kind of family, outside of the Corleone crime syndicate, instinctively associates “trying” with doing something surreptitious, or an action where one can get “caught”? Moreover, is there any one-liner in the history of the world — with the exception, of course, of “It depends what the meaning of ‘is’ is,” — that better sums up the Clinton ethos?

Each and every week Americans get a bigger glimpse at the mysterious layers, shady connections and apparent payoffs that power the Clinton family business — a slow drip of “getting caught trying,” if you will — and, amazingly, most people seem not  to care.

Last Friday, a passionate Hillary Clinton lambasted efforts to end the Export-Import bank, which many Republicans have criticized as corporate welfare. The bank, Clinton declared, righteously indignant, is “a vital lifeline for American small businesses.” But as Lachlan Markay of the Washington Free Beacon reported last week, it’s also the darndest thing: Many of the largest contributors to the Clinton Foundation, including “small businesses” like Boeing, General Electric and Emirates Airlines, are beneficiaries of generous Ex-Im subsidies.

These days, of course, it’s getting hard to find anyone who hasn’t donated to the Clinton Foundation. Former Clinton lackey, current ABC News anchor and “neutral” news personality George Stephanopoulos? Check. Foreign governments like those of Saudi Arabia and Algeria, who “coincidentally” got bigger arms deals when Clinton was secretary of state? Check. FIFA, soccer’s international governing body, which recently burst into a corruption scandal — complete with convoluted ties to Bill Clinton and the government of Qatar? Check.

One could go on, noting that Chelsea’s future publisher also donated to the Clinton Foundation in 2007, but you probably saw that one coming from miles away. I’ll be honest: For a while, this sort of thing bothered me. With truckloads of cronyism on national parade, paired with a growing pile of shady and mysterious payoffs — not to mention a rash of deleted e-mails and a newly discovered, undisclosed shell corporation — how could anyone in America take Hillary Clinton seriously as an uncorrupted presidential candidate?

But that question, of course, misses the point: After all, very few Hillary fans are Hillary fans because they see her, first and foremost, as “uncorrupted.” The issue of corruption, in fact, is barely a blip on their radar screens. Many hard-core Clintonites are just fine with growing, interconnected, technocratic, managerial government and the quiet crony capitalism that naturally accompanies it. Clinton’s campaign, being a business of sorts, knows and understands this, embracing their candidate’s core competency and ultimate projected image: the “connected,” well-known grandmother queen who “knows the ropes” and can help us all.

Who knows? Perhaps, in the upcoming weeks, a Clinton scandal will emerge to top all Clinton scandals, effectively knocking Hillary out of the nomination. In the meantime, however, perhaps we should all sit back, relax and try to enjoy The Clinton Show. There will be times to laugh, assuredly; there will also be times to weep. Occasionally, there might even be valuable lessons to learn. But at this point, one thing’s for sure: Thus far, it’s been a remarkably hard show to stop.

Heather is a writer based in Austin, TX.  Her work can be found at  http://www.heatherwilhelm.com/ and her Twitter handle is @heatherwilhelm.

This article first appeared at Real Clear Politics and is reprinted with permission.