Trump never could have drained the swamp by himself without going full on dictator.
Provoking huge election fraud and then handing the reins over to the military while is he a civilian is amazing 4d chess strategy.
How else could he have done it!? There is no other way. Now he is a neutral party to it all, with clean hands. He has nothing but options as to how to proceed from here; all winning paths.
Idk, I think most patriots would have respected full dictator than some weird underground psy-op plan. Nothing about seizing power to drain corruption says you can't give the power back to the people when you're done. At least you go down in history as a legend, Abraham Lincoln is a perfect example.