"They Are Taking Over the Government"
“They are taking over the government.” That's the story you are hearing out of Washington. In between self-insert interviews from the oval office where Elon brandishes his meat shield son and Trump swoons drunkenly over his desk like it's nap time, Elon is sending squadrons of racist undergrads to fire civil servants and jettison charitable aid (oh, and fraud protection) "into the wood chipper." That's what it looks like. Of course, they're not as effective as they want you to think: courts are blocking some of these efforts, wrists are getting slapped, and they’re walking back unpopular moves — but still. These particularly sweaty hands are too quick. The cookie jar is getting ransacked. But you go on twitter, and it's a different story. I've made a habit of lurking, trying to understand the Trumpist mind. I've prided myself on being a centrist for most of my life. I don’t call myself that anymore, but I still try to be unswayed by dogma from any...