The Trump and Musk Drama. – Government does not operate like the private sector

The Trump v. Musk Feud, Patriots Are the Losers in the Trump v. Musk Feud, Kurt Schlichter
Jun 06, 2025

• • Here’s the problem that’s probably the root of Elon Musk‘s disenchantment. Elon Musk is, at heart, a visionary and an engineer. He envisions a result, then he creates processes to achieve it. It’s very binary. Either you succeed or you don’t. Something either works or it doesn’t.
  • But that’s not how politics functions. Politics is all about process; the outcome is often secondary. Now, that is suboptimal in an objective world where your only goal is the best-engineered result possible.
  • Politics is not about obtaining the best-engineered result possible. It is not about enacting a perfect policy, program, or paradigm. It is about getting the very best result you can get through the process that exists, a process that must incorporate people whose objectives are not yours.
  • In politics, people are not looking for the best possible result but the best possible result for themselves. That means to build a coalition, you have to compromise.