The Historical And Institutional Context of DOGE

... For more than a century, even dating back to 1883, the civil service has grown and grown without check from the elected branch, either the presidency or the legislature. The bureaucracies have ballooned from a few to 450 or so. The bloat and absurdities have grown too. 

Get this: no one has ever known what to do about it. Not Coolidge, not Hoover, not Nixon, not Reagan, not Clinton, no one. No president has been able to crack this nut...

No president has seriously taken on this problem because they simply did not know how. The unions are powerful, the intimidation from the deep institutional knowledge is overwhelming, the fear of the media as been powerful, and every single president comes to power vaguely feeling threatened by the intelligence agencies. The industries that have captured every single agency were also far too powerful to unseat or control...

All this time, the American people have felt themselves ever more oppressed, weighed upon, taxed and regulated, spied upon, brow beaten, and otherwise overwhelmed. Voting never made any difference because the politicians no longer controlled the system... The Biden years underscored the point...

The job of the president, goes the message from all the insiders, is to PRETEND to be in charge but not actually do anything meaningful... Trump refused the deal and look what happened...

The efforts of DOGE and MAHA and MAGA are epic in scope... at last using moral courage to confront the problem head on...

They simply must succeed... The way of failure is the path everyone knows the US was on, toward economic stagnation, political scolerosis, and eventual irrelevance in the unfolding of the next stage of social evolution.