I am so not shocked at this.
Drain the swamp?
I would suspect that all pols are either corrupt upon reaching national office or corrupted while there—that includes Pubbies. The depth of the corruption is shallower on the Pubbie side than the dems because almost all real conservatives are by definition folks with moral and ethical standards.
The system is broken. IMO it cannot be fixed. It must be dismantled one way or the other to facilitate a new start. The Constitution itself does not preclude another round of revolution. The country is now in the hands of a new breed of political despots. With the break down of the two-party system there is currently in this country no meaningful opposition to the dems Marxist agenda. RINOs who control the GOP are not going to relinquish control to constitutionalists. They are perfectly happy with the crumbs the dems deign to toss on the floor for them.