It’s the stuff dreams are made of.

The dreams, that is, of conservatives and libertarians yearning for a return to small government.

And maybe also the dreams of millions of Americans fed up with government censorship of social media. Fed up with government lawfare against everyone from Donald Trump to parents protesting woke policies at school board meetings. Fed up with the so-called government experts whose imperious dictates mangled our society in the name of the Covid pandemic.

Trump says he’s ready to tackle the leviathan in Washington and has tasked two of America’s most prominent and successful entrepreneurs to bring the wisdom and common sense of the private marketplace to government. To cut Washington’s colossal administrative state down to size. To make it more efficient. To streamline it. But also to restrain it. To get its too-interfering fingers out of our lives. To return to Congress the responsibility for specifying the laws that hit close to home with us.

“Drain the swamp” is how Trump describes the job he’s given to Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, and Vivek Ramaswamy, a lawyer/investment guru and one-time presidential candidate. They will head the Department of Government Efficiency, called DOGE.