President Donald Trump wants larger nonprofits and academic institutions investigated for the “egregious” use of DEI.

Elon Musk is trying to purge the federal workforce, and accusing nonprofits and the media of corruption in conspiratorial and factually inaccurate ways.

Marc Andreessen, a venture capitalist who deeply influenced the administration’s hiring, has cited grand theories of how Trump could smash the power of “managerial” elites.

And 25-year-old administration official Marko Elez, who’d made racist online comments and initially resigned, will be rehired, Musk has said.

All this and more from Trump’s first four weeks back in office show that his new administration is profoundly influenced by what might be called the online right: perpetually plugged-in posters who’ve become united by their desire to combat and defeat “woke” progressives.

Complaints about the liberal leanings of various institutions — the media, nonprofits, the civil service, academia — are nothing new for Republicans, or for Trump.

But the new Trump administration — and, specifically, very online officials like Vice President JD Vance, Stephen Miller, and Musk — isn’t just complaining. Officials are now trying........

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