Civic tech seeded DOGE politics

The article argues that Obama‑era hackathons and open‑government initiatives normalized a techno‑solutionist, efficiency‑first mindset inside Congress and agencies. That culture later morphed into DOGE’s chainsaw‑brand civil‑service 'reforms,' making today’s cuts a continuation of digital‑democracy ideals rather than a rupture. — It reframes DOGE as a bipartisan lineage of tech‑solutionism, challenging narratives that see it as purely a right‑wing invention and clarifying how reform fashions travel across administrations.