Politics here are as nasty and dirty, if not more so than anywhere...
It's just that the media is so deeply complicit, that you don't see it, read it, talk about it, unless you're in the middle of it, and then not a word to outsiders... What we see or hear/read, is just a smidgen, or scratch at the surface!
If Trump really wants a legacy, he needs to go full bore on draining that swamp and not allow the good ol boy network to suck him in... Only time will tell!