This is an excerpt of a piece by legal expert Sam Bagenstos laying out a few of the illegal acts committed by Trump and Musk in the past two weeks. I thought it might be helpful if you’re trying to wrap your mind around all of it or trying to convey to someone who hasn’t been paying attention just how monumental this assault actually is: If you’re wondering what the plan behind all this is, he has the right analysis: It seems obvious that Trump and Musk are running the basic play we’ve seen before from Musk and other Silicon Valley billionaires–move fast, break things (with “things” very much including the law), and then dare folks to try and do something about it. Their expectation is that people will be too overwhelmed, and the law will move too slowly, to stop them from doing what they’re doing. Maybe at some later point some lawsuit will provide somebody some relief. But Trump and Musk will fight those challenges at every step through whatever means necessary, many challenges will fail for odd legal reasons, and other challengers will get exhausted by the process. To the extent they ultimately lose some lawsuit, I expect that Trump and Musk think it won’t reverse what they’re doing; it will just represent a reasonable cost of doing business. Yes, this is the “break things” ethos of silicon valley where neurotic nerds believe they are geniuses with the capability of running the world and the best way…