They’re advancing a roided-up version of the “unitary executive theory.”
Elon Musk seems to have complete authority to slash and burn as he sees fit. Government agencies are being stripped of their core missions and reconfigured instead to serve as weapons. A staggering number of federal employees have been fired. But the throughline for these actions is the same — an assertion of unfettered presidential authority.
His Royal Majesty is consolidating power within the White House, and while the scope of his actions is unprecedented, the idea underpinning them is not. It’s the unitary executive theory, albeit on a wild amount of steroids, and it’s already showing up in various administration court filings defending Trump’s illegal power grabs.
