Throughout his campaign Donald Trump leaned heavily on the metaphor, “drain the swamp.” He never had to pause and explain or define what he meant. The three words resonated with his audiences while implicitly being understood. It became his mantra (along with “build the wall”), and, of course, the image was of a Washington filled with brackish water, filled with a turgid bureaucracy that was in desperate need of drainage. Ours had become, he insisted, a top-heavy [...]
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