He is delusional. However he is right that Trump did not make much of an effort to drain the swamp. He did not even put any of the perpetrators of the Russia scam in jail. He first installed more deep state DOJ personal and then thought they were gonna get something done. Lets hope he learned a lesson.
It was a Catch-22. Use your powers to prosecute your political enemies? Seems very un-American- eh? Let it ride? Your enemy lives to ride another day.
OK, Now we can ingest hindsight. Allow your enemies to live, and deal with them in every iteration humanly possible, thus the use of the allegory - The Snake.
Trump got played by his appointees. Do you honestly think someone like Trump, who is being put through the meat grinder, is going to repeat the same mistakes?
This time, WE SETTLE THE FAMILY BUSINESS!