"Drain the swamp" nghĩa là gì?

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"Drain the swamp" = hút nước các đầm lầy (để giảm muỗi) -> cụm từ này nghĩa là diệt tận gốc tham nhũng; khai trừ, bỏ đi thứ gây hại.

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Mr. Trump “won by saying that he wanted to drain the swamp,” Dr. Uscinski said. “By doing that, he essentially built a coalition of people with anti-establishment views.” Those who believe in QAnon, the professor added, “are probably the most extreme part of that coalition.”

“Drain the swamp!” was one of those crowd-pleasing bromides Donald Trump tossed out to hungry crowds during the 2016 presidential campaign, a surefire (chắc chắn thành công) winner that sounded like a worthy goal, devoid of specifics but as easy to chant as, “Lock her up!”

November is coming. As we look across the pond, we might allow ourselves a little hope as Biden leads Trump in poll after poll. But let’s not get too excited. There are plenty of voters who are still fed up, still sceptical (hoài nghi) that this political system offers them anything. That same feeling that many realised (too late) was behind Trump’s election, that many blamed (too late!) for the Brexit vote, is still alive and well. Many politicians have found success in promising to reinvigorate their democracies: to take back control, to drain the swamp, to get back to the things that matter. If our findings are anything to go by, many of those for whom this sounded like the change they wanted remain outside our democratic fold.

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