He entered the Swamp to clean it out, but instead he became its king . . . just as he’d planned all along.

While the Swamp King appears never to have filed personal bankruptcy, his various businesses filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection six times between 1991 and 2009. SK claims four times, but when pressed on the matter, he has said that he counts the first three as one. These corporate actions have left many debt holders unpaid and many shareholders with equity losses.

I don’t think the nation will get out of its relationship with him any better.

Polls suggest that a majority of SK’s supporters — not counting his base, of course — neither trusts him nor approves of his performance as king in any but one category of the job he’s supposed to be doing. The one area he’s trusted is the economy, in spite of his being, demonstrably, a failed, flawed businessman.

And, from what I’ve heard out of people’s mouths, that one area of trust and approval is based largely on some version of “My 401K’s doing good.” This reason suggests a level of personal greed, even if it is benign greed — thoughtless greed — for most. And it might not be a reason that holds much water anymore since the coronavirus has tanked our economy.

In comparison to benefits offered to large corporations and the wealthy, SK cares not a whit for us as poor or middle-class individuals. And while some of his Swamp moves might have benefitted our small businesses in limited ways, that’s really only a measly trickle-down benefit in comparison to how those moves benefitted biggies in business and personal wealth. A devastating number of our small- and medium-sized business will not survive the swamp of systemic and administrative failures into which SK has led us.

Check out this arguably less repulsive image of Swamp King and consider how far the roses and the pecs go to redeem — to de-monster — the monster . . .

Exactly.

If the Swamp King is allowed to continue his reign, then we might be wise to consider these words:

We must keep our eyes fixed on the supreme government of the ETERNAL KING, as directing all events, setting up or pulling down the Kings of the earth at his pleasure, suffering the best forms of human government to degenerate and go to ruin by corruption. . . .

Dr. Samuel Langdon. A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE HONORABLE CONGRESS Of the Colony Of the Massachusetts-Bay IN NEW ENGLAND, Assembled at WATERTOWN, On Wednesday the 31st Day of May, 1775.