But Musk is ready for a new kind of power. He is leading the new Department of Government Efficiency to eliminate waste and reduce America’s federal bureaucracy, Trump’s populist promise to drain the “Washington swamp” of “deep state” bureaucrats to restore America’s past glory.
Exactly 100 years ago, the American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote an essay: The rich boy, that captures Musk, the richest man in the world: “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy from early on, and that does something to them, it makes them soft when we are hard and cynical when we are trusting.”
Musk seems unaware of the difference between celebrity and government, and in these tense days, there is no place in American politics for such blandness and cynicism.
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