India, June 10 -- In an age where public service should be about solving crises, planning futures, and restoring trust in institutions, American politics has instead degenerated into an unfiltered slugfest between overgrown egos. The latest-and perhaps most spectacular-example is the public breakdown of the Trump-Musk alliance. Once a show of power between the world's richest man and the world's most controversial president, this unholy friendship has devolved into a childish, vindictive, and dangerous feud that exposes the rot at the core of American political culture.

This is not a case of ideological divergence. It's not a disagreement about how best to serve the American people. This is personal, petty, and poisoned by pride. It is a...