"Reputation can take years to build and seconds to destroy."
More like undergo different degrees of politic conversion. Whatever is presently in vogue. Right now, it's the "Trump model", bombastic, loud, a shameless taker.
Marjorie Greene, Boebert and George Santos use this. Santos might (smirkingly) argue that he has been "upfront and honest" regarding his deceit to "rise from nothing" to a position of direct power over common citizens.