“I simply cannot bring myself to believe that our Republic is over yet. I can’t. But if I accept your outlook...than I have to admit that to myself. I just can’t do it yet.”
That’s not what I am saying. I don’t think the USA is over by a long shot.
My point is that a Swamp cleanup is not going to come from the legal process, or from a post-Watergate reform like Inspector Generals.
It has to come from elected politicians defunding, breaking up and abolishing institutions.
The Swamp is bureaucracy. Kill their institutions and they are nothing.
In his second term, Andrew Jackson abolished the central bank of the United States. That’s the scale of change that no Swamp can sabotage.
"...This OIG result proves that the Swamp cannot reform itself, and only wholesale firings and institution abolition/restructuring will do it..."
But perhaps Trump, with his Bully Pulpit and the aid of some steadfast Patriots, can...:)