It never stops getting worse, does it? Just when you think the progressive Left has torpedoed our culture and country to rock bottom, a new hitherto-inconceivable outrage explodes.
Until the Trump years, the law-abiding universally loved the FBI. They protected our country and us, we thought. They investigated domestic threats to America, we thought. They were politically nonpartisan, like the military, we thought. Respect for them was so universal that ABC had a show titled The F.B.I., starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr., which depicted FBI heroism week after week.
And then we inadvertently uncovered worse than our worst fears as a new president came to Washington, D.C., from outside the Beltway culture and started “draining the swamp.” Maybe it was too late, and maybe it now is too late. I have never drained a swamp, but the metaphor seems quite apt. One’s very proximity to a swamp exposes a person to bacteria and other toxic sewage and worse that can poison lungs and other body parts. One would have to be an expert at draining swamps and would have to wear Hazmat garb to undertake it. You can’t just show up in shorts and a T-shirt and drain a swamp. You never know what poison lurks and teems in there.
It’s quite the metaphor. Donald Trump himself and all his MAGA supporters buoyantly chanted the slogan “Drain The Swamp! Drain The Swamp!” It alternated with other catchy three-syllable chants: “U-S-A! U-S-A!” and “Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!” But no one really knew what dangers and poisons they were exposing when they actually would begin to try draining the swamp.
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