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I don’t see any real pressure for her to recuse herself. The dominant political party in the USA ran on the simultaneous platforms of “the swamp is fake” and “the swamp is better than the alternative”. Well this is the swamp the populists were talking about. The democrats are now are emboldened with a clear mandate from the people that these relationships are an acceptable price to pay.

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If only we could all get on the same page about this as a society. The previous administration ran the single swampiest administration in American history. The current administration is dramatically less swampy, but still as swampy as a typical administration.

This is something that absolutely needs to be fixed in our society, and something that should unify 99% of people. But half of the country is under the delusion that the previous administration was somehow fixing this, simply because they said they were. This division makes it impossible to ever get anything done.

Whichever populists you’re talking about went along with the swamp being just as swampy as ever, if not more so during Trump’s tenure.

Trump, Fox, and establishment Republicans all directly or indirectly said “the swamp is better than the alternatives”. See, for example, many of the excuses given for hiring all the 9 figure and up net worth cabinet members.

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