But Manafort’s departure should be the beginning of a series of inquiries, not the end of the story.

Campaign shake-ups are said to be insiders’ sort of news. Yet voters can learn a great deal from how candidates run their campaigns. Efficient operations lead to at least the hope of reasonable efficiency in the White House. The chaos of the Trump circus should genuinely trouble non-ideological sorts of voters. The notion of a White House run in a way anything like Trump’s stewardship of his campaign is petrifying.

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The Trump operation looks more like a medieval court than anything resembling a democratic political effort. Trump’s family is dominant, big donors seem to call the tune, and Trump cannot settle on whom he wants working for him.

As a practical matter, this chaos has led Trump to run far behind Hillary Clinton in state after state when it comes to basic forms of political organization. That is the insider part. The turmoil itself should concern everyone.

Manafort’s leaving should not end the inquiries into Trump’s ties to and attitudes toward Vladimir Putin. One of the reasons voters need to see Trump’s tax returns is to learn what, if any, ties he has to Russian oligarchs.

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As Tom Hamburger, Rosalind Helderman and Michael Birnbaum reported in The Post, Trump’s son Donald Jr. said in 2008: “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.” The Post reported that Trump and his family members “have relied on Russian investors to buy their properties around the world.” Especially in light of Trump’s verbal love-fest with Putin and the Putin-friendly policies he has endorsed where Europe is concerned, voters should want to know much more about all of this.

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Finally, let’s learn how much the Trump campaign lies and covers up. As Chris Cillizza noted in the Post, the Trump campaign resolutely denied that the campaign shake-up was, in fact, a “shake-up.” Manafort would remain there as a happy camper. As they used to say in the Nixon administration, those claims are now inoperative. The whole thing, as Cillizza noted, “insults our collective intelligence.”