The ‘swamp’ needs its Trumpian medicine

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When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016 and took office on Jan. 20, 2017, he was handed a mandate to change Washington, D.C., and the federal government in a dramatic and radical fashion.

In his inaugural address, dubbed the “American Carnage” speech, Trump made clear that he intended to deliver on the mandate for which he had been elected: to change Washington from the inside and repudiate the establishments of the Democratic and Republican parties.

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