As a figurehead controlling a small but substantial portion of the narrative.
China’s secret weapon has been bribery of elected officials, private corporations, media personalities and others.
Draining the swamp will include exposing their crimes and making sure nobody will ever dare to accept foreign bribes again.
The desire for money is an extremely powerful influence on what people do. But this desire resides among the lowest rungs of human brain function, not far from where the inclination to buy illicit influence is located on that same hierarchy.
These people are lowlifes.
Do you even know who Buchanan is? He’s the grandfather of Trumpism.