Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“Donald Trump’s ‘drain the swamp’ talk has always been the most cynical kind of public-relations horsepucky. For one thing, Trump was for most of his life a minor swamp creature: not a big player like the National Association of Realtors or those ethanol bastards, but a guy who bragged about buying political favors both in New York and in Washington—it probably says enough to note that he put money into Kamala Harris’[s] campaign coffers back before he ran against her. But there is another element in play more serious than mere hypocrisy: Donald Trump is, at heart, a corporatist, and collusion between Big Business and the state is his preferred mode of economic activity. … For all that ‘drain the swamp’ talk, Trump consistently recruits precisely the kind of grasping political insiders and revolving-door careerists he claims to despise …” (12/06/24)