An article in The New Yorker analogizes the Musk "takeover" of various agencies of the federal government to the "shambolic American takeover of the Iraqi government," in 2003.
I don't know much about those events in Iraq, to tell you the truth, and The New Yorker article, "Elon Musk’s Revolutionary Terror," was revealing. Hopefully, the magazine won't have deployed a paywall that will prevent interested persons from reading the full story. In case there is a paywall, though, here is the first paragraph. This will certainly give you the basic idea:
Nearly twenty years ago, the Washington Post’s Rajiv Chandrasekaran wrote a classic account of the shambolic American takeover of the Iraqi government, “Imperial Life in the Emerald City.” Most memorably, he described what a Times reviewer called “the lethal combination of official arrogance and ineptitude” that plagued the foreign occupiers from Washington who, after the 2003 U.S. invasion, moved into the Green Zone—the walled-off compound that had once belonged to Saddam Hussein. Young conservatives were favored, heedless of experience. Some job seekers were asked their views of Roe v. Wade. Others were hired after sending their résumés to the right-wing Heritage Foundation back in D.C. While Baghdad spiralled into out-of-control violence, the G.O.P. ideologues who reported for duty in the desert worked to privatize Iraqi government agencies, revamp the tax code, and launch an anti-smoking campaign. A clueless twenty-four-year-old found himself in charge of opening an Iraqi stock exchange. It didn’t work out well.
In the United States, WE - ordinary people - have been legally placed in charge of the government. This is not only "theoretically" true. That is absolutely what both our Constitution and the laws provide. This means that if we exercise our democratic powers of self-government we can dislodge the arrogant and inept Elon Musk, and strip him away from his pretentious idea that he is, somehow, entitled to run the world, just because he seems to be, at the moment, the world's richest person.
"Arrogant and inept" is a pretty good way to sum Musk up. Let's not be afraid to comment on "Emperor" Musk's clothing choices, either, as depicted below, in a cartoon that was published in the Daily KOS.
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