One of the first things that a cancer does when it invades a body is knock out the immune system. The most effective cancers knock out your white blood cells and the entire apparatus of fighting disease early on.
What we are watching right now is roughly the same. It’s no coincidence that DOGE went after the consumer protection bureau early on.
Of course the federal ethical watchdogs needed to be dismissed. And then there is the large scale firing of any employees in the executive branch who might be capable of raising the alarm when the very cell walls that allow our political organism to function are under attack.
What we are witnessing right now is the political version of a rapid spread of cancer. We may beat it in time, but by then the body may be too weak to ever really recover.