The best disinfectant doesn't kill everything. Nobody's ever managed to assemble a government that doesn't do awful things out in the open.
One of my complaints about the Trump era is people are correctly identifying a bunch of problems with how the US government operates but for some reason they're only a problem when Trump does them instead of being a more general concern even if other people are involved.
Eg, Trump is almost certainly spying on his political opponents. Using infrastructure built by Bush/Obama/Trump/Biden that everyone who took notice at the time pointed out would be used by people to spy on political opponents. This isn't a Trump problem. It is people assuming the government is always on their side despite copious quantities of evidence otherwise and regular elections.
I'd be pretty likely to agree with you, but I have you tagged as "pro-Musk". If you think an unelected oligarch wrecking everything with his hand-picked kids is an improvement over government, I dunno what to tell you.
I no longer believe that "sunlight is the best disinfectant", and haven't for a long time now.