Donald Trump was serious in 2015 when he promised he’d come to Washington to “drain the swamp.” This pledge was crucial to his come-from-behind win over Hillary Clinton.

It became a significant factor in his first four years in the White House, but probably not in the way he intended. As an outsider, Trump underestimated the breadth and depth of the odious ooze in which American self-government is mired. His self-professed talent for using “the system” was no match for the more experienced manipulators working for decades inside the beltway.

Any swamp-busting reforms he managed to implement were undone by his successor, Joe Biden, who, along with his autopen and aides, reconstructed the swamp until it was deeper and murkier than ever. A notable example of this concerns allegations of pat

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