Democrats are digging in to defend woke spending and the federal bureaucracy.
They’re ramping up their attacks on Elon Musk.
And Democrats were handed one bad problem about Elon Musk that left them in awful shape.
Democrats make Elon Musk and DOGE the centerpiece of their attacks
Democrats finally found their angle of attack against President Donald Trump.
They’ve trained their fire on SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and his work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
DOGE recommendations will save taxpayers more than $105 billion after blowing the whistle on woke spending at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that led to Trump shutting it down.
Eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government is an idea so popular with voters that even former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama pretended to support it.
Trump with the help of DOGE is trimming the fat in the federal government and shrinking the size of the federal workforce.
Democrats are convinced that attacking DOGE is their winning ticket back to power.
But they’re discovering that this fight is putting them in a terrible position politically.
Democrat group Third Way held a retreat in Virginia to brainstorm ideas about making the party relevant again.
They found that Democrats are seen by voters as “favoring excessive regulations, inefficient spending, and programs that don’t directly benefit them.”
A Third Way memo after the retreat argued that Democrats were viewed as the defenders of “government bureaucracy.”
DOGE is more popular than Democrats realize
Democrats have tried to paint DOGE as the new political boogeyman.
But polling found that most voters support the goals of the group’s work.
A CBS News/YouGov poll found that 51% of voters supported Trump’s efforts to reduce the number of government workers.
Navigator Research director of polling and analytics Rachel Russell warned that Democrats can’t be seen as the defenders of the federal bureaucracy.
They need to pull on the heartstrings of voters and convince them DOGE is harming the most vulnerable in society.
“We don’t need to say we’re saving the federal bureaucracy, but focus [our messaging] on the people, the devastating impacts on society and some of the most vulnerable populations. That’s sometimes hard for Democrats to do,” Russell claimed.
DOGE’s favorability was plus four with voters in Navigator Research’s polling but dropped when Musk was associated with it to 37%.
“Focusing solely on Musk as the villain is not going to be sustainable for us,” Russell stated.
Russell admitted that there is “always some appetite” for eliminating “bloat” from the federal government.
Jon Lovett, an ex-speechwriter to former President Barack Obama, confessed that DOGE had some good ideas on the Pod Save America podcast.
“Some of this is pretty annoying because it’s the stuff we should have done,” Lovett said.
Republican PAC Brighter Michigan found that DOGE was the top issue for Republican voters in the state along with government corruption.
“DOGE is today what the wall was in ‘16,” a Republican consultant told Politico.
Democrats are positioning themselves as the party of the Swamp and government bureaucracy with their fight against DOGE.
Stay tuned to Unmuzzled News for any updates to this ongoing story.
