Editor, The Beacon:

The recent op-ed “DOGE lacks legal authority to close agencies” attempts to reassure readers that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is overstepping its legal bounds, implying that democracy will self-correct. This conclusion, however, fails to grasp the deeper ideological project at play; the systematic dismantling of democratic governance as a feature, not a bug, of the administration’s trajectory.

The premise of the article is rooted in an outdated assumption — that institutions, laws and norms hold inherent authority over those in power. But as any serious observer of the Neoreactionary movement (NRx) and its intellectual progenitors, such as Curtis Yarvin (a.k.a. Mencius Moldbug), can attest, this assumption has already been discarded by those orchestrating the current shifts in governance.

The objective is not reform but replacement — not to improve efficiency, but to render the state machinery ungovernable so that it may be rebuilt under a singular, executive authority. DOGE’s actions are best understood within the framework of Neoreaction, which envisions the Retire All Government Employees (RAGE) doctrine as the primary mechanism for collapsing the democratic State.

The name “Department of Government Efficiency” is merely a euphemism for what is, in practice, a project of radical centralization. Strip away bureaucratic autonomy, replace career public servants with loyalists or contractors, and ensure that regulatory agencies function only in service of executive power.

This is not a legal fight; it is a structural one. The administration does not need explicit statutory authority to shutter agencies when it can simply defund them, reassign their functions to unaccountable private entities, or declare an emergency to justify sweeping reorganization.

This is the “sovereignty coup” that Yarvin and his fellow travelers have long envisioned — where the state is no longer a pluralistic apparatus with checks and balances.

Tracy Masters

DeBary