“”BTW, Reagan routinely used the term swamp””
You said Reagan used the term, “Swamp” routinely. Lets see just 2 examples where Reagan used the term to describe government corruption?
Unlike today where everything is archived via YouTube or things like it, it wasn’t done that way then. I recall hearing more than once and produced a time he used it. As did Pelosi. And the other thing they have in common, they all failed.
Orlando Sentinal 8/4/85 pg A4
‘Sometimes it’s difficult to remember you didn’t send us to Washington to feed the alligators, you sent us to drain the swamp. We didn’t come to raise your taxes but to lower them,’’ the president said.
Dallas Morning News 2/6/85 pg 15a There was bound to be some growth in the federal establishment and its responsibilities, certainly, in 21 years. But who would have predicted in 1980, when Ronald Reagan was campaigning for the White House and promising to “drain the swamp’ in Washington, that in four years he would be submitting a budget only an eyelash under a trillion bucks?