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The obvious response is "Well he has had three years!". Now, I agree with you, but I want to address the obvious point here.The swamp fights back. Are you really surprised they're not going quietly?
Getting out of quagmires is several orders of magnitude harder than getting in. That much should be pretty obvious by now but I guess not.
No one in the swamp says they're in the swamp. They hide the fact that they're in the swamp. No one will check 'Yes' on their job application to the question 'Are you a swampy motherfucker?' No one will answer 'Yes' to the question in a job interview. The best you can do is vet them as well as possible and fire them if they do turn out to be swampy.
Your complaints can basically all be boiled down to 'Why hasn't he accomplished these really difficult things in a single weekend?'
You need to adjust your expectations because they are wholly unrealistic and out of whack. Things didn't get this way overnight and they won't be fixed overnight.
A lot of swampy motherfuckers are DEEPLY ingrained in the system. Additionally, they also tend to have actual skills and applicable knowledge. Jon Bolton is an all around scumbag, but he is also highly educated and understanding of important minutia in his area of expertise with a skillset to match. Hillary Clinton is the Swamp Personified, but a shrewd, calculating, and competent workhorse in her areas of expertise.
If you were to just fire every single person from the get go int he swamp, the whole government apparatus would grind to a halt. We'd be blind, deaf, and dumb to the rest of the world and within our won borders. Trump isn't doing the suicidal route here, he is doing the long game. Minimizing swamp input, putting a kebash on their long term plans, and trying to kick out the ones who squawk and act out.