Why are anti-establishment Republicans embracing the special interest racket of Washington, D.C.?
In 2016, candidate Donald J. Trump ran on a promise to drain ‘the swamp’. Since then, the term has become an all-purpose epithet, used by the MAGA faithful to flay elites of both parties, the special-interest groups that rule Washington, and government in general.
According to Pew, public trust in government has been at or below 20 percent since the end of the George W. Bush administration. Like earlier dips, the current one began with a combination of foreign war followed by recession at home, but this time there was no recovery. America’s democratic institutions may be suffering the worst crisis of legitimacy in the modern era.
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