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Elon Musk and when ‘Founder Mode’ goes too far

'Move fast and break things' is not something you want in Government, writes Finn Hogan

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Feb 13, 2025
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Watching Elon Musk stand in the Oval Office, next to Trump sitting at the Resolute Desk, rattling gleefully through his blitz of federal agencies - I was struck by one line in particular.

“If the bureaucracy is in charge…what meaning does democracy actually have?”

It’s a reasonable question on its face, but it becomes shockingly tone deaf when you conside…

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