While you were sleeping, the Senate snuck through a $9 billion clawback, gutting funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting — a bipartisan agreement undone by a 2:30 a.m. vote. NPR, PBS, and rural programming face extinction, all while Trump loyalist Emil Bove gets fast-tracked for a lifetime federal judgeship despite whistleblowers, cover-ups, and a refusal to say Biden won 2020.

This is the American Dream, reimagined — where Mr. Rogers loses his mic, and Trump’s former personal lawyer gets a gavel.