A foreign billionaire is running the state through a shadow government without formal checks \u2013 the constitutional order, now, is largely window dressing<\/p>\n
It\u2019s one of the humiliations of our historical moment that the constitutional order has been destroyed by such stupid and unserious people. On the trail with Donald Trump, the billionaire Elon Musk, who financed Trump\u2019s campaign to the tune of about $250m, pledged to cut $2tn from the federal budget, a project that promised to wreck the economy, destroy the nation\u2019s credit, eliminate programs and institutions that structure people\u2019s lives and create an international economic and leadership vacuum into which America\u2019s rivals \u2013 namely, China \u2013 could step.<\/p>\n
This would have been ominous enough on its own. But because Musk is a narcissist and a nerd \u2013 because he insists on discarding solemnity and being ostentatiously irreverent and carefree as he destroys people\u2019s lives \u2013 he named his new project \u201cthe department of government efficiency,\u201d or Doge, a juvenile reference to a years-old internet meme featuring a Shiba Inu.<\/p>\n
Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist<\/p>\n
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