The DOGE Boys Are Going To Pay

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Preemptively moaning about elected Democrats not sufficiently fighting the authoritarian scourge is every online doomer’s favorite game. Some have made a career out of it. You gotta respect that kind of hustle. And I get it. I’ve done my share of this sort of engagement-friendly posting during my decade and a half of microblogging. It’s always some variation of a theme: Democrats won’t do this or that because they’ve never done this or that. This kind of posting is contagious, and it lays the groundwork for elected Democrats to do exactly nothing when they have power. It has the added effect of discouraging Democrats’ constituents from applying the kind of pressure that leads to the good sort of power wielding . Maybe it’s the do-good shitlib in me, but I don’t think it’s smart to set low expectations for the elected leaders who are going to be tasked with holding accountable the criminals who run the Trump regime, those who have gleefully violated bedrock constitutional principles and court orders with no repercussions (because the American political system is grounded in the presumption of good faith, and because the current Justice Department is operating under the logic of competitive authoritarianism ). The coming accountability agenda will include the DOGE boys who worked for Elon Musk in his coup of the U.S. government in early 2025. Read more at BadFaithTimes.com .