Your president has been in federal positions of power for 50 years. Same for the speaker of Congress and many others. Why is anybody surprised that this is the outcome?
That’s what the “swamp” was all about.
That’s what the “swamp” was all about.
Merely being in power for a long time does not create a "swamp", bad ethics does. Bad ethics is known to be enabled by secrecy and inhibited by transparency. The solution needs to address the actual cause, not some unverified assumption, so more transparency is far likelier to actually reduce corruption.
(And the guy who was going to "drain the swamp" was the swampiest guy around. Turns out he fights tooth and nail against any transparency into his affairs. Huh.)
The reason democracy has been so successful throughout the world is that it provides a peaceful way to remove people from power after a few years.