Democrats the extreme party? Americans believe so.

[Dill]

(04-12-2019, 04:37 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I'm a little confused.

I though Trump was elected because he was the revolutionary that was going to overthrow the old-school established way of doing things, i.e. "drain the swamp".

But now it is bad to be "extreme" and the Republicans are running on a platform of "same old same old" instead of making any extreme changes.

I wonder if "drain the swamp" has a very different referent for Trump voters--as in get rid of corrupt government officials and deep staters--and Democrats.  On that interpretation, he is "keeping his promise."  

Most Dems think of draining the swamp as attacking lobbyists and moneyed interests, getting corruption out of government.