Source: Persuasion
by Sam Kahn
“‘Member DOGE? ‘Member the excitement that the year started out with? There was Elon with a buzzsaw. There was a righteous effort to shed $1 trillion—or maybe it was $2 trillion?—from the federal budget. If that strikes only a distant chord, maybe it’s because it’s been lost in all the other swirling promises with which Trump started his second term. There was going to be the annexation of Greenland …. And then the Panama Canal was going to be taken ‘back,’ as Trump vowed in his inaugural address, and then Canada was going to be the 51st state. These things do stick in one’s memory. What leaves less of an impression is the denouement—is the inglorious end of DOGE …” (12/05/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/touring-the-graveyard-of-forgotten