The Trump administration’s assault on democracy is often slapdash. This is largely because Elon Musk and his script kiddies at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency have been allowed to run wild, leading to grimly hilarious outcomes like the administration begging stewards of the nuclear stockpile to come back after it had fired them en masse.
Sometimes, though, this slapdash approach is a deliberate strategy rather than the byproduct of moving fast and breaking things. By...