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Political elites have hollowed out the institutions of government, leaving the machinery in place while stripping away the norms, competence, and independence that make it function. The agencies built to check power have been captured by it. The press built to inform has been bought, gutted, intimidated, and insulted into silence. The platforms built to connect us are tuned to enrage and distract us. The state increasingly surveils its citizens and cries foul when its citizens ask to surveil it back.