"Drain the swamp" to mean incremental steps to regulate? #LiquidationSale?

See Foreign Affairs, Volume 96, Number 3,  20 et seq., "[l]ittle noticed, incremental steps, most of which are legal and many of which appear innocuous.  Taken together...they would tilt the playing field in favor of the ruling party." [From "Is America Still Safe for Democracy? Why the United States Is in Danger of Backsliding" by Robert Mickey, Steven Levitsky, and Lucan Ahmad Way; Foreign Affairs, May/June 2017 at 21.

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Why is Richard Trumka threatening to vote out members of Congress for the "Repeal&Replace" [RnR], all the while holding out a gesture of Hope to the President himself.