Elon Musk’s Growing Parallel Power in America Is Problematic.

Democrats and Republicans are less and less supportive of the one they consider illegitimate.

Immediately after his election, Donald Trump appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, a former Republican primary candidate, as co-directors of the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), whose mission is to reform government. The exact nature of the project remained a mystery for several weeks, before Elon Musk finally inherited full powers, wi…