A Real Leader?

I finished going through Book 2 and have barely begun going through it one more time. The hard part is over. It shouldn't take too long, if I can make the time to sit down and get it done. Now on to the situation in the U.S.

I could make an argument that Ronald Reagan was the last truly American president. I think it's more obvious that he was the last leader elected to the oval office. Everyone since him looks back and tries to invoke him. If they were leaders, they wouldn't have to do that. They would simply lead. So, we haven't had a leader in the White House since Reagan. Trump could be the first leader since Reagan. He gives the appearance of being a leader. We'll have to wait and see how events unfold to know for sure.

Will he drain the swamp? To do that he has to work with swamp creatures in Washington who don't want to lose their habitat. If he has to work with them in order to get rid of them, they're not going to let it happen. How else could he drain it? It might happen something like this. One day we could wake up to find a breaking news story about a prominent leader of congress who has been exposed as a corrupt criminal. It would be someone no one suspects, possibly a member of an important committee or even a committee head. No one would know where the leak came from. I would guess the congressman would be a Republican. They would immediately suspect Democrats. They would also suspect other factions within the Republican party. I would be Rep vs Dem or Neocons vs Tea Party(Are they still around?) or Reps vs whoever. If there's retaliation and a second member of congress goes down, it would be like dominoes.

Or it could happen more quietly. We could wake up one day and see a prominent member of congress announcing he's not running in the next election, because he wants to spend more time with his family. Other congressmen would find out that he was being forced to resign and the scandal was being kept quiet. More resignations would follow.

Or Trump could be at a routine press conference or state of the union address and start listing names and crimes and say he has the proof in his office.

No matter what the first domino is, to drain the swamp Trump would have to stand up and lead to get the rest of them. It would have to begin in the Republican party.

That's just my opinion. It could work out some other way like Wikileaks. This is food for thought. The main point is that for the first time since Reagan we might see a real leader in the oval office. I hope so.