Elon Musk's DOGE "revolution" is a return to tyranny

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Elon Musk’s DOGE “revolution” is a return to tyranny
Welcome to the tyranny of the bosses

By James Hassett
Published March 28, 2025 5:45AM (EDT)


(Salon) From arbitrary layoffs to intimidation tactics to targeted harassment, Elon Musk has brought the tyrannical practices of corporate America to the federal government.

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With Trump’s fawning approval, Musk is dismantling the American constitutional system, flouting federal law to purge perceived ideological enemies from the civil service and circumventing congressional authority by cutting off appropriated federal funding, and doing so in open defiance of the courts.

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Musk and Trump don’t just want the government to run like a business, they want to rule it like one.

Welcome to the tyranny of the bosses.

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From Amazon forcing workers to urinate in bottles to Walmart penalizing employees for taking sick days, employers everywhere use and abuse their authority in the workplace to humiliate, demean, and harass workers. Like Big Tech companies use performance improvement plans to set unattainable goals to justify layoffs, Musk’s insulting memo demand is meant to force employees out—or into submission. ................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/03/28/elon-musks-doge-revolution-is-a-return-to-tyranny/