Compare DOGE to Gore's efficiency drive? Or Hamilton vs. Robspierre?

 I've been offline due to a family property calamity (all are healthy.) But this here set of facts (that you'll see nowhere else) needs urgently to be said about the DOGE 'efficiency' campaign: Nathan Gardels, at Noema Magazine*, offers excellent points about Evolutionary Stability vs. Revolutionary shake-ups, like Elon Musk's massive, Robspierre-style purge of civil servants. It's a distinction that both right and left ought to learn, especially as:

1. No one - and I mean no one at all - appears to be mentioning the most-successful campaign ever to improve government efficiency. One that was 'evolutionary' and - at the time - recognized as a huge success, even if it did not use chainsaws.
Al Gore's "Reinventing Government" endeavor used systematic methods to reduce duplication, redundancy and unnecessary procedures across all bureaucracies. The program won plaudits across the spectrum, including JD Powers awards. Solid metrics showed increased efficiency and service across all agencies. In particular Gore's RG program reversed the long plummet in veterans' opinions on the VA, transforming it into among the most loved and trusted of all U.S. institutions.

Why does that earlier endeavor to increase government efficiency go entirely unmentioned today, amid mass, unexplained and destabilizing 'chainsaw' firings?
Of course, time and the steady lobotomization of American discourse help to explain it. As does the heady rush of sanctimony rage, today's most-damaging addiction.

As well, the utter difference in personalities between Al Gore and Elon Musk make them seem different species. Any comparison would thus stretch imaginations too thin, among modern journalists. Still, the contrast would seem to be worth offering. By someone. Anyone. Anywhere. Yes, I know. I ask too much.

2. But more is at fault than the Right's mania or microcephalic journalism. The Left's fervid, revolutionary-transcendentalist impatience - which blatantly cost Kamala Harris election - fulminates contempt toward boring, undramatic efforts at incremental reform. This, despite the historical fact that 'incremental reforms' - often frustratingly slow - are exactly why the American Experiment has worked, while other revolutions soon devolved into chaos, often worse than the ancièn regimes they replaced.

3. Alas and worst of all, there does not appear to be much - or even any - effort at tracking "who will gain most" from these Trumpian chainsaw slashes. Are there particular interest groups who will benefit?

I cannot prove, yet... but I assert... that these "DOGE" slashes at Education and Health and CDC and other agencies have one core aim: to rile a vast range of opponents and thus distract from the administration's two top goals:

FIRST: evisceration of the FBI, CIA and counter-intelligence services. (Now who benefits from that?)

SECOND: to crush the IRS.

Nothing has terrified the cheater wing of American oligarchy more than the 2021 Pelosi bill that ended 40 years of starvation at the Internal Revenue Service. Forty years preventing computer upgrades, software updates or the hiring of sufficient staff to audit upper-crust tax-dodgers and outright criminal gangs.

Desperation to re-impose IRS starvation is (I maintain) the core goal for which that wing of oligarchy flooded the Trump Campaign with funds and cryptic aid. Now, the cheaters and their inheritance brat New Lords are getting their wish. And it's working. While cuts at CDC and Health and Education raise howls, you'll notice almost nary a peep from liberals and moderate about the poor, friendless IRS. And the cheater lords smile.

4. Final point. Might anyone apply actual Outcome metrics comparing Al Gore's Reinventing Government campaign to Elon Musk's DOGE?

What're 'metrics'? If both the left and right share one trait... it is utter contempt for nerdy stuff like facts.

5. Compare outcomes from historical revolutions. It reduces to Hamilton, Adams & Jefferson vs. Robspierre, Lenin and Hitler. Look them up.

PS... nothing better disproves the old saw that "Both parties are the same and both are corrupt."

That is disproved absolutely and decisively by the IRS matter. Demp pols voted for the IRS to audit bigshots... including some of their own. Republicans live in daily terror of that possibility. Proved. QED. Step up with wager stakes.