The Revenge of the Shallow State
In a Drezner's World post, Daniel W. Drezner argues the "shallow state" he warned about during peak DOGE has arrived, pointing to the nationwide U.S. flight ground stop, the loss of measles-elimination status, and Trump's cabinet turning on each other over unenforced Nvidia export controls. Quoting his own earlier essays, he warns that staffing cuts at the National Nuclear Security Administration, FAA, and FEMA put essential functions at risk, forecasts the ground stop will take a long time to unsnarl and that such events will become the new normal, and says the more the public learns of what DOGE wrought, the bigger the mess.
