I honestly don’t know whether I believe the stories that cropped up so suddenly on Wednesday afternoon about how Elon Musk will be leaving the administration, sources say. Certainly, the voters of Wisconsin demonstrated quite vividly what a political millstone the guy has become. (As near as I can tell, nobody likes this strange Porcelain Man.) His primary business venture has gone into the blind downward staggers. And the man has the essential personal charm of a carcinogenic pesticide. Even the president, it seems, is said to have tumbled to what a huge liability the man has become.

All of my skepticism is based on the fact that I don’t trust anyone in this administration as far as I can throw a gilded commode. This include anyone speaking anonymously “to avoid reprisals” or whatever the rhetorical chickenshit of the day is. It would be a classic John Barron ploy to float the notion without actually doing anything about it.

And even if it is true, so what? His damage is already done, and it will take years, if not decades, to repair it. Who needs a friendless goofball dressed up like Zorro to decimate the government when you have people like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to do it piecemeal for you? The day to day functions of government have been handed over to people who don’t believe government should function, day to day, or, possibly, at all. Trumpism has evolved completely into Muskism, and it needs neither Trump nor Musk to wreak its havoc.