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Elon Musk’s worldview is eerily similar to his authoritarian grandad’s

Elon Musk might be the most powerful man in America.  Donald Trump has put his patron in charge of the federal bureaucracy, allowing Musk to tailor the administrative state to his whims, which are far-reaching and almost certainly unconstitutional. The tech mogul has shuttered a government agency in defiance of Congress’s will, orchestrated mass layoffs […]

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