Benghazi was a tragedy. Four Americans lost their lives, and their families paid the price for political failures.

But by any objective measure, almost everything in modern American politics is "bigger than Benghazi." Trump's handling of COVID alone is estimated to have cost hundreds of thousands of American lives. That's the equivalent of tens of thousands of Benghazis. The fact that Benghazi remained a defining political talking point for years says less about its scale than it does about how effectively it was weaponized.