Boy oh boy are people going to be upset when they find out — as they surely will — that DOGE’s übermunchkins are in up your data deleting everything in sight to make restoring these institutions impossible. Or do you doubt Musk would think of that?
For a while now I’ve been telling people not to waste their time or distract others with bullshit about the inner life of fascists. Now that Actual, Certifiable Nazis have taken over the USG, that takes on a new dimension. But I’ve been saying for a long time because that manufactured space of intention is how they’ve gotten off in the media (“just kidding”) and courts (“but did he really know or mean x, y, z”?). But if you take away that imaginary space away, you’re left with the empirical evidence of what they say and do — and can prosecute them for it.
So, to look ahead a bit, if non-fascists ever gain power again (very much TBD), they’ll need to prosecute Musk’s shocktwerps. Courts will lavish aaaalll kinds of attention on whether they really knew that wanton, systematic destruction of govt records was illegal. Fuck that. I don’t car whether Mr. BigBallz imagined his fingers crossed behind his back when he took an oath. What they’re doing is wildly illegal AND THEY KNOW IT — hence all the secrecy, the strategic ambiguity, the games about who they are, what their title and status is, where the orders came from, etc, etc.
So: If you want this mess to be fixed as much as possible and the culprits to be held to maximal account, that’s another reason — as I say — to NOT WASTE THEIR TIME OR DISTRACT OTHERS WITH BULLSH*T ABOUT THE INNER LIFE OF FASCISTS.