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Democrats, Steel said, have been effectively engaging in minority communities since New York City’s Tammany Hall more than two centuries ago.

The media has obsessed over political corruption in immigrant and ethnic communities since the days of Tammany Hall in New York.

One candidate referred to City Hall as L.A.'s “Tammany Hall,” a reference to the New York Democratic group that was synonymous with corruption.

Yet Crumb is perhaps most directly indebted to the 19th-century political cartoonist Thomas Nast, who helped bring down Tammany Hall and New York’s Boss Tweed political machine.

Goldmacher points out, however, that while Tammany Hall kept its grip on power by doling out patronage, Trump isn't spending much of his massive war chest at all.