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spending power that will inevitably create politically fraught, highly consequential litigation.

As for the Democrats’ campaign against Musk, they may well succeed in making him a hate figure. If the Democrats take the House, presumably their first act will be to launch an investigation of Musk and issue a 1,000-page report with an hour-by-hour account of the moves of every 23-year-old working for him on DOGE. But, by then, Musk already may have made meaningful changes to how the federal government works and be on to his next project — say, mining meteorites or making cold fusion practical.

In the meantime, becoming such an enormous lightning rod that he diverts some of the political heat from Trump himself is another one of Elon Musk’s seemingly impossible achievements.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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