It much more like (imho) the period of time around the Gracchi brothers in the Roman Republic. Lots of corruption, where the corruption is "tolerable" by the masses and elites. One or two people pushing the corruption as far as possible and being reprimanded but not punished. The masses groaning but not buckling. It tracks even the politics of the time. Trump is a populist in his political platform. His supporters do believe he is draining the swamp. The same way the Gracchi brothers rode on a tide of populism while not being populists.

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superxpro12 34 minutes ago | parent [-]

how his supporters genuinely believe he is ridding the government of corruption is a contradiction so plain and bare that it begs a psychological study.

It's amazing what a little bit of propaganda can do to a system of government.

	▲	vkou 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I mean, the simple explanation is that they aren't being honest with the rest of us. The next simplest is that they are incredibly fucking stupid if they thought that this was the lesser of two evils.