Praying DOGE succeeds, the truth abbout journalists and other commentary

“President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency,” headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, “might work where nothing else has,” argues Reason’s J.D.Tuccille.“It seems that no matter how much money the U.S.

government collects, it spends more.”Perhaps “a pair of wealthy tech entrepreneurs can stage the intervention that the federal government so obviously needs.”DOGE “won’t have any power to actually enforce its will,” but “working outside the government means” it’s “are also freed from the government way of doing things, with all its red tape and bureaucracy.”“A rotating cast of lawmakers and presidents let spending outpace revenue for decades and show absolutely no interest in changing their habits.Maybe — just maybe — outsiders can get it done.”“President-elect Donald Trump’s victory revealed (once again) how out of touch so many journalists are — how disconnected they are from all those folks who live west of Manhattan but east of Malibu,” grumbles Bernard Goldberg at The Hill.Washington Post big David Ignatius writing that he’s “mystified by this outcome” is one revelation; as is the WaPo columnist who blames Trump’s win “on the media going easy on him” and another bewailing the “right-wing media ecosystem” as though Harris didn’t have a “left-wing ecosystem” pushing her.Gallup finds that 31% of Americans don’t trust “the media to report the news ‘fully, accurately and fairly.’”As Steven Brill once observed: “When it comes to arrogance, power, and lack of accountability, journalists are probably the only people on the planet who make lawyers look good.”  Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email address.

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