If possible, allow for a moment how difficult it would be for someone in his position, an outsider without a career's worth of political contacts and favors to cash in, to 'drain the swamp' before he's had a chance to get the lay of the land and get his own people - or the right people - in key positions.
Alright - hear me please:
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If I allow that, which I see where you are coming from, that bespeaks a certainty of ineptitude... The only logical extension of that position is that he bit off way, way more than he could chew, and he should have known better.., That is functionally inept. So to me, to give him the benefit of the doubt necessarily requires that admission of ineptitude. To do otherwise is to admit he is a player, which is more likely... But also means he is playing something and somebody (which is also very likely, and may well be you)... without a HINT of 'Orange Man Bad', just as a sturdy rule-of-thumb, that he is a player running a game is the most obvious and reasoned position to take, according to his history, motivation, personality, and general rules of the game... And as evidenced by his actions.
Perhaps you will better understand my jaundiced eye, and realize I have little reason to ever be a true believer because I start from a critical position ALWAYS when it comes to government. I believe quite profoundly in the warning of the phrase 'I'm, from the government, and I am here to help'.
The ONLY guy I will cheer for is that guy that is there to slash and burn. To enact draconian cuts on the GOVERNMENT, not the citizens. I would leap for JOY at a man that would make 1/3rd of America jobless - that third that works for the Fed. That guy will be inerrantly and always a Conservative, dyed in the wool, because it is only Conservatives that believe that government is not your friend. Is ~NEVER~ your friend.
So if I knew right off the bat, and if I was biased from the start against Tumpy, it is only because it was quite apparent from his early history on up that he did not possess the Conservative stones to do what folks said he was going to do. The minute he crawled in bed with Turtle fixed the deal.
Yes, I jeer. Purposefully, with a pointing finger. But that is based firmly in a first premise that has proved true. The way this is fixed, the ONLY way it is fixed, is with a congress filled to bursting with Conservative paladins with hands on the levers of power, and a grand-daddy, rock-ribbed Conservative to lead them. Anything else is a waste of time and an affirmation of 'Here to Help' rather than heeding the warning.
And even at that, it will take many iterations, as many will still fall to corruption. So it will take an insistence and commitment to the cause that very few who claim conservatism possess or understand.
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Hope that helps with the POV.
On the other hand its clear he over-promised - but what presidential candidate doesn't. If Barr doesn't cough up some key indictments I will make no more apologies for him about the 'drain the swamp' issue.
FACTS. And if I am wrong, and there are indicted Democrats in droves frog-marching to their doom in October, I will happily admit my error. But I wouldn't bet on it.
