Are these takeovers really about saving cost or someone else’s control of our future? As my grandfather might say now, is all this clean out of the bounds of reason?

It baffles me watching Elon Musk up in our nation’s capital gathering data from millions of us U.S. citizens, sending letters soliciting resignations or with outright firings to federal employees and their families.

Under what authority or by whose permission can he shut down these whole departments, taking down their signs, even barring Congress from coming inside buildings he has occupied? What will he do with our data once he has it? How will our federal offices provide us services, and how will they be changed to suit his vision? How will our country be seen outside the U.S. as we turn our backs on allies and open doors for China and Russia to take the lead?

Are these takeovers really about saving cost or someone else’s control of our future? As my grandfather might say now, is all this clean out of the bounds of reason?