Elon Musk arrives for last month's second inauguration of President Donald Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

If in late January 2021, newly installed President Joe Biden had tasked billionaire financier George Soros with overhauling the operations of the federal government, Republicans around the nation would have collapsed into paroxysms of horror at what they would have cast as a takeover of the levers of the state by an unelected oligarch.

And just imagine their outrage if the president — less than two weeks after taking the oath of office — had granted Mr. Soros and his team from the Open Society Foundations access to to the digital systems that lay at the heart of the functioning of the federal government without much in the way of transparency or security checks, and allowed them to send out emails to some 2 million federal workers elbowing them toward a sketchy resignation offer.

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We are confident that GOP members of Congress would have lambasted these developments as "seizing power from the American people," which is how Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth........

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