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The authoritarian shift might happen in Washington, but it would be lived in towns across the country, under a thousand little tyrannies embracing the small-scale politics of bossism.

But while some tech C.E.O.s might blame a sleeper cell of gender-studies majors for their problems, many of Mr. Musk’s elite fans adhere to a more straightforward, business-school kind of bossism.

Stripping Madigan’s bossism out of the statehouse would be like opening the windows to a dusty attic.

The struggle between bossism and reform never ends.

“People up the State cannot legislate for us any better than we can legislate for ourselves,” Molenhauer told the New York Times.”We’re tired of bosses and bossism.”