The Romney support was part of Trump’s learning curve mistakes. Over the tenure of his first term, he had been instinctive in whom to trust, and worked his way from the moderate to the conservative/constitutionalist. When the first inklings of Romney running while sunbathing at his La Jolla palatial estate with garage elevators for his cars, right when Hatch announced his retirement, my hackles, along with most conservatives shot up starkly. I suspect Utah was expecting to have a normal race among unknowns, with hopefully the more conservative Josh Hawley types jumping into the fray, but Romney and the Deep State jumped in. And everything has gone exactly as I had surmised. Really really bad.
Swamp was NEVER drained. POTUS Trump filled it inexplicably.