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Can’t tell if you are being ironic or not. But it’s worth throwing in there that the democratically elected leader Donald Trumps pledge to “clean the swamp” has

Can’t tell if you are being ironic or not. But it’s worth throwing in there that the democratically elected leader Donald Trumps pledge to “clean the swamp” has left the government controlled by family and loyalists. And while consensus is that USA isn’t a highly democratic country, it is typically lumped in with others higher on the democratic index, so it the whole anti-corruption=Purging might just be a general rule not something limited to non-democratic countries. Unless you count USA as being completely non-democratic, which seems a hyperbole, at least unless the current administration refuses to step down and carries on through a coup.

gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
> it’s worth throwing in there that the democratically elected leader Donald Trumps pledge to “clean the swamp” has left the government controlled by family and loyalists He's certainly put on display just how horribly the system functions and it's clear he's more of a symptom than a cause of the dysfunction. There wasn't even a pretense of a good faith effort to try to cooperate and start cleaning house. By virtue of beating Clinton and easily taking the nomination as the Republican candidate goes to show how hollow both parties were already. The void of competent and appealing politicians - that represent anyone - was begging for someone like him to enter the scene. And that's why it's funny to watch all the horrified "decent" politics nerds of the establishment try to find the perfect insult or scandal that would destroy him - they don't get why he was elected. He was elected as an insult to Washington. Trying to insult or pick apart the insult is useless.