The elephant in the room is that this is about as excoriating a jab as Terence Tao can dole out against the brute and unconsidered actions of Ol' Musky on our (

The elephant in the room is that this is about as excoriating a jab as Terence Tao can dole out against the brute and unconsidered actions of Ol' Musky on our (federal) government. For our sake, I hope Tao is also correct in that damage to the federal system may not necessarily destabilize structures at other (state, county, municipal) scales as regards socioeconomic organization in the USA.