Long ago, even before he decided to run for President, I recognized that Trump was a strategic genius.
He was winning at $100+million dollar deals against the real estate barons of New York City. He delt with organized crime in NYC that ran the construction industry and came out relatively clean.
Trump knew the depths of the swamp and knew that if he jumped in too fast it would devour him. He waded in gradually, set to up the swamp for self destruction rather than declaring war.
Trump is an excellent student of Sun Tsu.
While recognizing his genius, I remained very cautious of the purity of his motive.