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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust saw some videos of Trump promising to "drain the swamp"... and it just hit me...
I never noticed this before.... he doesn't actually know what "draining the swamp" is SUPPOSED to mean metaphorically.
Instead of getting rid of people who don't play by the rules he thinks that "draining the swamp" means getting rid of the rules so that they can't be broken.
So, there now appears to me to have been a massive disconnect between him and his millions of voters. They thought he was campaigning against the evils of corruption when he was actually campaigning to end the technicalities of corruption to allow more evils. And I'm not sure he was actually deliberately deceiving them.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)cos dem
(913 posts)I don't think he thinks about anything.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)I think he and his followers thought it meant getting rid of government employees. One of the first things he did was freeze hiring, and then he tried, and is still trying, to make big cuts in spending. Also he hasn't filled a lot of political positions and says he doesn't need to.
Goodheart
(5,760 posts)marylandblue
(12,344 posts)BigmanPigman
(52,216 posts)Oh yeah, I forgot Fux Ruse.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)Deplorables ate it up.
EleanorR
(2,430 posts)Trump was fed the line and kept saying it because it got him applause. He didn't a shit what it meant as long as it got him positive attention.
As far as dumping government employees, that's what fascists do, they get rid of all but the most loyal sycophants.
3catwoman3
(25,388 posts)...swamp in order to get to the really nasty, malodorous, decaying ooze at the bottom - that's shere he found his cabinet members and advisors.