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Why Elon’s DOGE Strategy Failed: Rufo, Caldwell, Yarvin & Deneen Debate
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10:06Now Playingn this clip from Project Cosmos: Executive Power and the Common Good, Christopher Rufo, Christopher Caldwell, Curtis Yarvin, and Patrick Deneen debate one of the most controversial questions in American politics today:
👉 Was Elon Musk’s DOGE strategy a fatal mistake for conservatives—or a necessary step toward reforming the administrative state?
The discussion explores:
-Why DOGE was “ill-defined” from the start
-The tension between efficiency arguments and ideological reform
-Whether government can ever be run like a business
-The lessons of FDR’s Bureau of the Budget vs. Trump’s approach
-How the next administration might reshape the federal bureaucracy
📺 Watch the full episode of Project CosmosExecutive Power and the Common Good here
Guests:
Christopher Rufo — writer, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute
Patrick Deneen — political theorist, author of Why Liberalism Failed
Christopher Caldwell — journalist, author of The Age of Entitlement
Curtis Yarvin — political theorist and blogger
Johnny Burtka — President of ISI
#ProjectCosmos #ElonMusk #DOGE #ExecutivePower #AdministrativeState
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