The Illusion of Alignment It all looked promising. Musk—no stranger to burning bureaucracies to the ground—stood beside Trump with the stated goal of dismantling waste, hacking apart the Leviathan with surgical precision. The "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) was born, a libertarian fever dream turned real. Musk wasn’t there to play politics—he was there to slash red tape, wreck inefficiencies, and bring Silicon Valley-style disruption to a bloated empire. But Trump? Trump’s a showman. He talks like a revolutionary, governs like a Rockefeller. The minute real cuts threatened the gears of control, he recoiled. It wasn’t about liberty. It was about legacy. And Musk saw it. The Public Break By June 2025, the gloves were off. Trump trotted out his…
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