by William Sullivan, American Thinker:
We do not live in anything resembling the nation that was envisioned by our Founders, and for the first time in modern American history, we seem to have reached a consensus in recognizing that fact.
This was just dramatically evidenced in a presidential election, in which a broad coalition of voters from the political left and right voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump, who promised to create a “government efficiency commission” to be headed by Elon Musk.
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How a “government efficiency commission” could become the emphatic demand of a populace that I watched vote for an unquestionable expansion of the federal government during the Obama years is a sobering thing.
The Tea Party wasn’t cool when Barack Obama was thought to be cool.
But nowadays, Barack Obama’s hectoring of the “brothers” for not getting on the trolley in supporting Kamala Harris has made him the farthest thing from cool, yet the Tea Party’s idea about shrinking the federal government couldn’t be cooler.
This “commission” has taken life as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is both a funny reference to a meme-coin involving Elon Musk and, more importantly, the greatest and most necessary idea in modern American history.
As Charlie Kirk writes on X, the “creation of DOGE will be the first federal program whose goal it is to eliminate itself. It exists to shrink government, not grow it.”
“This is a profound, historic step back to the Founders’ vision for America,” he continues.
As it hasn’t been authorized or funded by Congress, it won’t actually be a “federal program” at this point. But that doesn’t matter. Kirk couldn’t be more correct on that final point about this being entirely consistent with the Founders’ vision for a limited federal government, and Elizabeth Warren steps on a rake to prove him right. On X, she writes that the “Office of Government Efficiency is off to a great start with split leadership: two people to do the work of one person.”
Musk responds that, unlike Warren, neither he nor Vivek Ramaswamy are being paid for their service, “so it is very efficient indeed,” further suggesting that “DOGE will do great things for the American people. Let history be the judge.”
The first thing that should stand out in this exchange is not Musk’s philanthropic nature in this endeavor, which is certainly more reflective of the Founders’ notion about public service, but his preemptive acceptance of eventual accountability.
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