Get a grip, folks.

That’s the best advice I can give — to both sides — as the nation cheers or condemns President Donald Trump’s efforts to remake our federal government.

Politics is rarely about the short game. One always needs to look at how things develop over the long term. And, reality check — we’re only one month into this administration.

It’s easy for partisans left and right to get caught up in the flood-the-zone action in Washington, especially the actions of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and what one side describes as the damage being wrought — as measured in frozen funds, shuttered programs, and terminated employees.

That’s not to say Musk and his minions haven’t caused unnecessary harm. But such a world-is-ending view myopically misses the pushback already underway.

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This was never going to go........

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