DOGE DAY OVER: Why Elon Musk is quietly retreating from politics

For a man who once vowed to terraform Mars, Elon Musk couldn’t even last a fiscal quarter in Washington. The self-styled disruptor who swaggered into the swamp with a chainsaw and a Reddit acronym has quietly begun his retreat, bruised by bureaucracy, battered by backlash, and burned by the very efficiency he promised to deliver. In a city allergic to logic and obsessed with meetings, Musk discovered what every tech messiah eventually does: the federal government doesn’t run on code—it runs on chaos.

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