"The pattern is familiar to anyone who studies democratic backsliding. Target agencies that constrain executive power and protect citizens: EPA, Department of Education, NIH. Protect and strengthen those that align with authoritarian goals: defense, immigration enforcement, border security. DOGE has been remarkably efficient at exactly one thing: dismantling our democracy."
Isn't this the goal of Mr. Vought? What do you think about the view that DOGE took the heat for the machinations of Vought and his minions? I don't generally think of Musk or Doge as having an ideological bent as strong as the anxious counter-elites at the Heritage Foundation.
"The pattern is familiar to anyone who studies democratic backsliding. Target agencies that constrain executive power and protect citizens: EPA, Department of Education, NIH. Protect and strengthen those that align with authoritarian goals: defense, immigration enforcement, border security. DOGE has been remarkably efficient at exactly one thing: dismantling our democracy."
Isn't this the goal of Mr. Vought? What do you think about the view that DOGE took the heat for the machinations of Vought and his minions? I don't generally think of Musk or Doge as having an ideological bent as strong as the anxious counter-elites at the Heritage Foundation.