Dragonslayers: Six Presidents and Their War with the Swamp - Larry Schweikart
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The Swamp has been around for over 150 years, and six major presidents have tried to drain it with varying degrees of success.
Donald Trump promised to “Drain the Swamp,” by which he originally meant lobbyists. When he got in, he found an entirely different Swamp—a Deep State that had grown, layer upon layer, within the government. But he wasn’t the first to encounter entrenched Swamp opposition. Abraham Lincoln had to battle the “Slave Power Conspiracy”; Grover Cleveland was the most successful of three presidents to fight the spoils Swamp. Theodore Roosevelt found a new iteration of the Swamp awaiting him: Trusts. After World War II, John F. Kennedy discovered that he had little control over the Central Intelligence Agency, and even found he needed the CIA for his own purposes. Despite promising to shrink the bureaucracy Swamp, Ronald Reagan found himself helpless to even make a dent in it. And Trump soon learned that the Deep State could ensure no one ever brought any of its own to justice. Dragonslayers explains why these Swamps exist, and why they were—and remain—so hard to defeat.
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This post has 20 comments with rating of 5/5
July 30th, 2022
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn’t belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
July 30th, 2022
Have to disagree on Kennedy. He was born into an existing political family, grew up in privilege, was already a senator before becoming president, had a very questionable relationship with the mafia, and was an inveterate womanizer. He was kind of just… a different sort of swamp creature.
July 30th, 2022
I don’t want to be a pedantic Pedro, but dragons don’t really live in swamps. They tend to reside in remote caves & occasionally an abandoned castle, which they can erroneously take to be an old cave. (They also live in stories.)
I think it was Shrek & Princess Fiona who lived in the swamp. Hope this helps.
July 30th, 2022
i wish tou guys could just comment on the book itself.
Have you read it? That would actually be helpful then.
July 30th, 2022
nitrolpost, this is one of the rare occasions you should judge a book by its cover.
July 30th, 2022
There is actually a breed of dragons that originates in the swamp (according to Terry Pratchett), called, well, swamp dragons. Hope this helps.
July 30th, 2022
That’s a recent innovation, and very far from dragon canon. Anyway, I wish you’d stop fannying about like a snappish swamp dragon & comment usefully on the book.
July 30th, 2022
“Trump soon learned that the Deep State could ensure no one ever brought any of its own to justice.” Well, that’s what he hoped.
Maybe Merrick Garland can prove him wrong, if he moves fast enough.
July 30th, 2022
@caesar - Sourpuss! You just didn’t know that about dragons.
Hope this helps.
July 30th, 2022
This has to be a joke, a parody book.
https://www.businessinsider.com/all-the-trump-campaign-admin-officials-to-face-federal-charges-2021-7
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jan/09/facebook-posts/many-more-criminal-indictments-under-trump-reagan-/
July 30th, 2022
Yeah, right.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jan/09/facebook-posts/many-more-criminal-indictments-under-trump-reagan-/
July 30th, 2022
Trump zealots will buy anything with a decent picture of him on the cover. This is perfect for them since they can feed their delusions without having to learn to read.
July 30th, 2022
Colour me skeptical that the noted narcissist Donald J Trump was trying to do anything except solidify his own power base and protect his family from getting caught in their grift
July 31st, 2022
Excellent. We need to eliminate the Swamp Creatures
Vote them out of existence
July 31st, 2022
@apollo: yeah, that happened in 2020.
August 3rd, 2022
Thank you Sir.
August 5th, 2022
I have always liked Teddy for his trust-busting. I wish we had a president today
August 16th, 2022
WTF is this? One of those guys was the swampiest of all. Hired two coal lobbyist to run the EPA. Hired an oil lobbyist to run BESA. Hired a corporate raider for the commerce director. Took money directly from lobbyist at his golf clubs and hotels. Left Syria when Turkey asked him to so they could go in and kill the kurds because of his towers there.
February 9th, 2023
embrace objectivity
May 27th, 2023
erouting has a terrible case of TDS
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