Trump didn’t drain the swamp. Supporters are starting to notice.

Op-ed by Helaine Olen @ WashingtonPost.com, Sept. 11

Here’s the thing about campaigning as an outsider, as Donald Trump did in 2016. If you win the election, you are the person in charge. You are expected to accomplish what you said you would do, or make a darn good effort to do so. And come the next election, it’s all but impossible to pose as an outsider. It defies common sense. If the man in the White House is an “outsider,” then the term has lost all meaning.

That’s one takeaway from a recent Ohio focus group of swing voters hosted by Engagious, a political research firm. As Axios reports, the voters who voted for Barack Obama and then pulled a lever for Donald Trump still say they believe the overall economy is improving under Trump. But the longer they talked, the more it seemed they still felt left behind:

They think President Trump has failed at “draining the swamp.” They think the Trump administration is corrupt. They don’t think the GOP tax law has helped them and their families. And they’re not feeling the “booming” economy.

Not all these voters don’t simply blame mysterious forces swirling around Trump, frustrating a well-meaning agenda. As one voter told the group, “He’s backed out of so many of his promises.” [....}