On Mending Over Ending

As someone deeply concerned about institutional corruption, much has been refreshing about Elon Musk’s merry band of DOGE barbarians laying waste to dubious federal programs and expenditures. Sure, the cuts are mainly symbolic window dressing that don’t particularly affect the government’s dire fiscal trajectory, but it’s the principle of the thing: over the years, endless billions of taxpayers’ hard-earned money have been squandered on slush funds subsidizing culture wars and comfortable sinecures for plugged-in professional progressives. That status quo cannot continue.