Democrats’ current messaging strategy isn’t working
One more focused on Musk and the threat his work poses to the lives of everyday Americans might be better.
Some Democrats have already begun this pivot
— emphasizing Musk’s access to everyday Americans’ personal data and potential meddling with entitlements like Medicare and Social Security in order to rip them off.
It’s the message that some progressives in particular have been using,
including when they rallied outside the Treasury Department last week, after news broke that the DOGE team was seeking control of the government’s system for issuing payments.
“An unelected billionaire and his team have been given full and unfettered access to our taxpayer money and our government,”
-- Rep. #Maxwell #Alejandro #Frost shouted at a February 4 protest.
“The fact an unelected billionaire has access to all your private information is a problem … [access to] Social Security Numbers, the federal payment system, which means he’s calling the shots over our taxpayer money.”
And it’s how Sen. #Elizabeth #Warren has been talking about DOGE’s infiltration of the CFPB over the weekend:
“For every American who doesn’t want some weird Elon Musk suck-up searching through your personal private data, this is your fight,”
she said at a protest at the CFPB building on Monday.
“Elon Musk is trying to shut down the CFPB so Wall Street can cheat and scam you as much as they want.”
https://www.vox.com/politics/399786/democrats-trump-resistance-democracy-norms-elon-musk-doge-division
