>Sure, some useful things might get trimmed. But staying on our current path until the whole system fails would be worse. I'm suggesting that there will be a s

>Sure, some useful things might get trimmed. But staying on our current path until the whole system fails would be worse. I'm suggesting that there will be a strong political backlash. If this were as easy as Musk acts like it is, it would have been done already. I agree that Musk is not doing this to serve the people that didn't vote for him, whose representatives did not vet and confirm him. He's doing this, as you say, to position himself for greater power. And I think he is at the very beginning of a strong popular rejection as he himself becomes increasingly perceived as an existential risk to democracy.