Comment by Dylan16807
1 day ago
Trump was never ever going to drain the swamp.
And I wouldn't say he served existing entrenched interests very well either. To the extent he touched the swamp it was to put in worse people only he liked.
1 day ago
Trump was never ever going to drain the swamp.
And I wouldn't say he served existing entrenched interests very well either. To the extent he touched the swamp it was to put in worse people only he liked.
Oh he is, but the “swamp” he was talking about the entire time is impartial civil service.
What they’re doing to people at the front lines of our government is very sinister and intentional. They’re using a whole host of (legally dubious or plainly illegal) methods to remove lifelong experienced workers with expertise in their field and replacing them with political appointees.
It is the purest form of anti-intellectualism as policy. They don’t want civil service to have the correct answer - they want it to have the answer that matches the ideology they want.
>Trump was never ever going to drain the swamp.
Doesn't matter for the point of the argument, he was elected on that promise, and others, that he eventually broke.
If you want to argue the problem is he got "assimilated" then you have to argue he originally would have made a real attempt to fulfill the promise. My assessment is: no way.
It was so transparent that it was going to happen, I really question if anyone legitimately believed it.
Might as well have literally voted for the fox to be in charge of the hen house. ‘Oh no, but they promised they wouldn’t do that!’
If only there had been clues he might be a liar... Really, it was completely unexpected, he used to be so honest.