Opinion: E.J. Dionne: Trump and Musk can’t take away my hope in government

Card-carrying hope-mongers need to face the realities of the next four years. Even if the governing wing of the GOP is willing to do some constructive work with Democrats, Johnson’s eagerness to bend to Musk and Trump shows how easy it will be to throw bipartisan projects overboard. And such modest gains will be of far less import than Trump’s eagerness to use the legal system and the executive branch against his political foes and the news media.

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