Letter: People must take action to address government chaos

A need for chaos powers some Americans’ support for Elon Musk taking a chainsaw to the US government

There's a sizable group of Americans who agree with the phrase 'I think society should be burned to the ground.' Anton Petrus-Moment/Getty Images A video of a Las Vegas Tesla dealership that had been set on fire by anti-Elon Musk protesters was posted on March 18, 2025, by an account on X called EndWokeness. The next day Musk replied to the post, “Some people just want to watch the world burn,” an iconic line from the 2008 Batman film “The Dark …

Federal Workers Are Facing a New Reality

The problem for government employees isn’t just low morale. It’s the manufactured chaos.

Letter: People must take action to address government chaos

It’s been a tumultuous few weeks. Federal agencies upended. Judges’ edicts ignored, and people snatched off the streets without due process.President Donald Trump promised he would not touch Medicare or Social Security. It was a lie. Elon Musk and his goon squad rummaged through Social Security until a judge limited the information they could see. Now we have tariffs that caused the loss of $6 trillion in just a few days. A Wall Street Journal e…

Here we go again — but how can one man disrupt so much

This column is going to be about President Donald Trump and I know it is going to have some of you saying I am obsessed with the man. You would be right on in your assessment. Indeed I am obsessed with the man. I am also angry, damned angry. I can’t understand how one man has the power not only to disrupt what is happening in his own country but in ours as well, indeed the whole world. I am speaking in the main at this point, of course, about hi…