swamp

After Ronald Reagan's 1980 election, he established the Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, commonly called the Grace Commission, in an early effort to “drain the swamp.”

The president-elect has talked in the past of "draining the swamp", in his plans to cut bureaucracy and spending.

Methane is produced by bacteria known as methanogens, which are often highly concentrated in landfills, swamps, and other sites of decaying biomass.

Trump has capitalised on this distrust in institutions, railing against the government “swamp” and promising the kind of sweeping reforms his supporters believe more established politicians are unable or unwilling to deliver.

None of these is a new argument — they’ve been swirling around the conservative and Republican fever swamp like a miasma for decades.