STEVE MOORE: Did Elon Musk drain the swamp or drown in it?

Musk is arguably one of the 10 greatest entrepreneurs, wealth-creators and visionaries in world history. His businesses from Tesla to SpaceX are worth over a trillion dollars.

His team found that the government's foreign aid programs like USAID couldn't even account for what happened to hundreds of millions of dollars as those funds got swallowed up by a syndicate of "nongovernmental organizations."

He spotlighted for all American taxpayers the outrageous and rapacious way the government bureaucrats and contractors in Washington were serving themselves and not the public. The fact that three of the five wealthiest counties in the United States are in and around Washington, DC spoke volumes to American taxpayers in faraway places like Kansas, Maine, and Montana.

He naively believed that he would be seen as a national hero. Instead, his reward for exposing to the American public that the empire of Washington wears no clothes was to create a revolt on the left against Tesla and his other world-class companies. Why the outrage? Because the crooked system is so endemic and the hundreds of billions of dollars that go into this racket and make fraudsters rich from all the graft have created a self-defense mechanism far more powerful than he or any of us thought was possible. Putting a muzzle on a rabid dog is no easy feat.

After all, if he and Trump can't fix our arrogant, obese and broken $7 trillion enterprise in Washington, who can?

In one of his most recent social media posts, Musk concluded that the only way to shrink out debt and Washington's tumor on American life and culture is to "grow our private economy" at warp speed so that, in relative terms, Washington becomes less and less consequential - a deadweight loss that we just write off every year as a cost of doing business.

He may be right that economic growth is the only way to fix our nation's finances. The good news is there's nobody better to do that than him.