Honesty? You cannot be serious.
Cheaters often win, all throughout history.
Evil wins a lot, too.
Good people fail to act, they let things happen, and the bad guys often prevail.
We helped Europe from the evil of Hitler, massive loss of our troops, extremely expensive to us, but then turned over 5 1/2 major countries to Stalin who was equally evil, for over 40 years, beause FDR did not have the stomach for any more confilct.
JFK was a good President, IMO, but cheated to win via the Chicago fraud.
I could go on with goverments for 100 pages...
We cannot expect honesty and integrity from an opponent with the control of our entire country at stake.