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Andrew Cockburn is out with a smart piece at Harper’s in which he catalogs the failure of past presidential efforts to trim back the federal bureaucracy or dismantle key government agencies have largely failed due to pushback by the permanent government and its allies, and forecasts a similar fate for the Trump/Musk “efficiency” drive.