Status Quo Multo Ante: There’s Probably No Going Back

*It’s **symbolic**, don’tcha know. It’s also **shambolic**.*

Paul Krugman is a smart guy, with a pretty good track record as an economist.

But he may be a bit behind the times politically.

Specifically, he appears to be still living somewhere around the end of January of 2025.

America as we knew it may end Tuesday.

Not realizing, perhaps, that “America as we knew it” almost certainly ended with the DOGE-days of February last year.

The situation has not improved since then.

Yes, we have seen some courts ruling that some of the past year’s wanton destruction was illegal, but there’s no obvious way to actually reverse any of that.

And last week’s announcement of the almost total destruction of the Forest Service along with the remainder’s re-orientation to become a service organization to local governments and corporations shows that there’s still new damage being done while the existing damage persists.

The United States as we knew it is probably gone forever at this point.

A quicker response from the courts might have made it possible to catch the damage as it was done and prevent it being permanent.

But at this point, many of the parts of the government that have been attacked are not recoverable; records have been destroyed and former staff dispersed.

They would have be be built new, essentially from scratch.