When the author Michael Lewis sat in the New Statesman’s studio to record The Exchange podcast, I told him that a part of his latest book, Blockers – an investigation into the US government workers that resisted Doge (Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency) – felt like a punch in the stomach. What shocked me about his account wasn’t the misguided young men sleeping on office floors, or the security guard winning pyrrhic victories to stop them accessing his institute’s building.