Democrats are going all-in on making X owner Elon Musk their No. 1 bad guy as they work to retake Congress from Republican control, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
While it's predictable that left-wing politicians such as Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) would target Musk, even normally cautious Democrats such as Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) have lined up to take shots at him.
"My constituents, and a majority of this country, put Trump in the White House, not this unelected, weirdo billionaire," Golden recently said, while adding that his office has been swamped with calls complaining about the X owner.
Golden's strident attacks on Musk are notable because he is normally cautious about going after President Donald Trump very hard given that Trump won his district by nine points.
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Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) outlined why Democrats have made Musk, rather than Trump, their primary target.
“He’s a good villain,” he explained. “He makes it so easy because he’s so disregarding of how people feel. You know there’s no empathy, there’s no sense of trying to help people.”
Musk has drawn ire from Democrats after he and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency have sought to shut down agencies such as the U.S. Administration on International Development without Congressional approval.
Musk and his allies' actions have sparked multiple lawsuits and even the right-wing Wall Street Journal editorial page this week questioned whether Musk's actions would survive court challenges.
