So much going on! Will Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the Department of Government Efficiency succeed in their supposed quests to shut down everything from USAID to the Department of Education to God knows what else? As the establishment crowd moans and their MAGA crowds rejoice over the sketchy claims of cuts and eliminations, I’m adopting (and strongly suggesting that others adopt) a wait-and-see attitude, a posture of sangfroid rather than swivet or schadenfreude (sorry if you have to look those terms up). Just because someone associated with the government says X, one needn’t, and probably shouldn’t, unquestioningly believe X.…
