Guest Post By Dr Walid Phares - The Elon Storm Hits Washington

Guest Post by Dr. Walid Phares for Independent Arabia 

Original op-ed article 

Posted under Dr. Phares' account on X 

Elon Storm Hits Washington

Summary

This phenomenon is new to America, but it comes as a response to two eras that went too far in the view of the majority of voters towards politicizing bureaucracies to establish a deep state that was distant from the feelings and concerns of the people and entered into permanent wars. Therefore, the new majority supported the program of deep reforms brought by Trump and Musk, and it became difficult for the  opposition to clash with the administration’s policy while public opinion watches the tragedies of spending and corruption cases on television screens.

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The United States of America is known for its storms, hurricanes and massive earthquakes that destroy neighborhoods, towns and villages from beaches to mountains, from forests to deserts, but it is now experiencing a storm of a different kind, a political and administrative storm unlike any other in American history.

The new president, who roars every day as he signs daily and successive executive orders, appointed the financial and technological giant Elon Musk to lead the Ministry of Financial and Bureaucratic Reform in order to search for suspicious spending across the country, cut unnecessary spending, and close ministries and institutions that have been controlled by the “Alok” groups for a decade and a half.

Musk's work on deep administrative reform is considered one of the pillars of Donald Trump's basic agenda that he promised his voters during his election campaign through hundreds of popular rallies. Musk has become the chief of staff for change and the savior of the state from the "deep state" according to Trump supporters. So what is the Trump-Musk plan?

According to the engineers of the reform strategy, it is summed up by the Ministry of Reform’s crews entering the depths of the administrative apparatus and revealing two huge matters. The first is the large, unclear funding for Wokist projects in the millions and sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars. Musk’s scissors revealed some of them while the president’s “roller” crushed all these imaginary sums that the Obama and Biden administrations were spending on “Wokist” and Marxist-Stalinist agendas, and sometimes “Islamist.”

Hundreds of millions were spent on bureaucrats to spread radical leftist agendas inside America and across the world, and Arab and Eastern countries and powers were complaining about the continued American support for extremists, especially since 2009, but they did not know who was behind the empowerment of these extremists. The support for radicals reached the point of pressures aimed at overthrowing regional governments or regimes.

Musk's team's discoveries, in their early stages, have become a political storm that is hitting America from ocean to ocean, as public opinion was not aware of the massive spending that was wasting billions on grants and aid described as acrobatics while the country's economy was bleeding left and right, but this waterfall waste was protected by politicians and interests, whether domestic or foreign, and for this very reason Trump and Musk decided to announce the results in the media, which spread a negative atmosphere towards the administrative apparatus and previous presidential terms, and the winds of the storm are still present and will increase.

The second storm escalated matters and threatens greater consequences in daily politics. The Ministry of Reform staff, by virtue of their mission, received the salaries of a large number of politicians and senior officials and their personal wealth from public sources. The comparison between pension and income was made, which allowed public opinion to see the swelling wealth of the political elite, and became convinced of the necessity of political, constitutional and legal reforms, which would increase support for the administration.

Such a phenomenon is new to America, but it comes as a response to two eras that went too far in the view of the majority of voters towards politicizing bureaucracies to establish a deep state that was distant from the feelings and concerns of the people and entered into permanent wars. Therefore, the new majority supported the program of deep reforms brought by Trump and Musk, and it became difficult for the opposition to clash with the administration’s policy while public opinion watches the tragedies of spending and corruption cases on television screens.

What we are witnessing now is a campaign to eradicate corruption led by a wealthy president who does not care about profit, in partnership with the richest man in the world who bought the most powerful media outlet in history, the “X” platform. Institutions now have no choice but to adapt to the new reformist reality, otherwise the congressional elections in two years will double the Republican majority and provide President Trump with time to continue making changes until the end of his term. This may have several positive repercussions for peace and stability in the world in general and in the Middle East in particular, especially after the repercussions of the developments in Gaza. Likewise, the “Elonic” storm now may establish a deeper peace in the future.

Dr. Phares' bio from X: Foreign Policy Expert, Co-Sec. Gen. of the Transatlantic Parliamentary Group, advisor, professor, author, father, and protector of nature & animals.