Former Trump administration official Matt Mowers on Thursday got some pushback from Democratic strategist Maria Cardona when he suggested that Democrats were guilty of "xenophobia" after Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz labeled Tesla CEO Elon Musk of being a "nepo baby" from South Africa.
Appearing on CNN, Mowers accused Walz and other Democrats of being bigoted against Musk, whose mass firings of federal workers have sparked anger nationwide.
"They're trying to use tropes right now to try disenfranchise, essentially, an individual who is an American citizen who's volunteering their time and is simply working at the request of the duly elected president of the United States to help enact his goal, which he was elected on the mandate he was elected on, which is to actually turn upside down the system and to break down the federal bureaucracy and return more and more of it into the hands of the people," he said.
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Cardona, however, wasn't having any of it.
"I think it's really rich of Matt to bring up two things: Number one, xenophobia," she shot back. "Xenophobia is at the heart of everything that this Trump administration is doing, getting rid of quote-unquote 'DEI' which means attacking every single community of color and every worker whose skin is not white. So that's rich... And number two, it's rich that you're complaining about a government who is working for the people, who supposedly has unelected bureaucrats, when the unelected bureaucrat who is taking a demolishing hammer to civil society and to a government who is trying to do good for the people, and frankly, we're seeing across the board Americans do not like it. So what I say to you, Matt, is by all means, bring it on."
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