"The Trump administration's strategy has been to "flood the zone" with so many actions that it's hard to keep up, let alone respond.

But what Americans are seeing now is unprecedented:

the systematic dismembering of its government. And it's coming at the hands of a man who cannot legally run for president, and who is acting as if he's drunk on his own grandiosity."

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"Republicans who know this is calamitous are nevertheless standing idly by, cowed by Trump and interested in self-preservation over national survival.

Democrats seem to have come up with new and creative ways to remove their spines from their bodies;

watching them feels akin to pulling the alarm for an out-of-control blaze only to see the firefighters sitting around the station remarking that someone should do something about this terrible event.

What Musk is doing, though, can only be done if our elected leaders let him. Congress created Usaid. One unelected man does not have the authority to dismantle it.

But he will be able to destroy it if Congress stands idly by " and if the public fails to stand up and say: for America to be great, America needs to be good."