The pardons may be largely symbolic as none of the people listed were convicted of federal crimes, which the presidential pardon covers.
The pardons may be largely symbolic as none of the people listed were convicted of federal crimes, which the presidential pardon covers.
That’s basically the AI definition given by DDG.
But nobody uses the phrase like that. When Reagan said he was draining the swamp, and his followers repeated the line, what do you think they said? Probably some shit like, “let’s make the government more efficient.”
Ok. Fine. That actually fits the phrase, even if Reagan was lying and giving corpos more control.
But 40 years later when you ask someone what they mean by “drain the swamp” and they express ideas of… imprisoning Democrats, getting rid of the big Jews, dismantling the liberal deep state.
People used “literally” sarcastically / for effect, and dictionaries added a new definition. So I think it’s fair to add a new definition for “drain the swamp” when people use it to mean “get rid of liberals.”