Adam Brandon is the Strategic Advisor for the Independent Center. He has a Center bias. The memeification of the federal government is beginning. Entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have been put in charge of a project—the “Department of Government Efficiency,” or “DOGE”—to slash federal spending. The acronym comes from the meme of a Shiba Inu dog that became popular in the 2010s. Because we’re in an increasingly hyper-partisan atmosphere, some may dismiss DOGE as an...