Elon Musk helped the Democrats act together, but what if he leaves?

The representative Greg Casar (D-Texas) obtained a great response when he said “Fire Elon Musk” in an ox in a rally outside the United States Labor Department in February.

It was cold, cloudy and several other Democrats had already spoken, but the multitude of worried federal workers cheered aloud due to the idea of ​​saying goodbye to Musk, the architect of President Donald Trump’s efforts to gut the federal workforce, and made a small call of call and response with Casar.

It was a moment of clarity for the second -period Democrat and the new president of the progressive Caucus of Congress.

“At that time, when there were only hundreds of union workers who simply could not stop singing, shout and trample their feet after saying only those three words, after that, I knew that this is the direction we all had to go,” he told Hoffpost.

(The only legislator who received a stronger response that day was the representative Robert García (D-Calif.). His line of applause? “Shit Elon Musk. “)

Musk has done a remarkable job that causes unnecessary chaos in federal agencies while crushing your own public imagewith national surveys that put 10 points less popular than the president, and his high profile intervention on behalf of a republican candidate apparently helping a Democrat to win a race of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin earlier this month.

The Democrats were not always united in Villains of Musk, who, not long ago, was a better known figure for building cars and rockets of space age than by sharing conspiracy theories and blindly reducing critical government programs. Now, he is a critical part of his plans to apparently each race between the elections now and half of the period, 19 months away.

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But there is a possible inconvenience on the horizon: Musk’s relevance could decrease sooner rather than later. On the one hand, it is a temporary employee of the White House, and it is assumed that Doge must conclude for next July, according to Trump’s Executive order Establishing his “18 -month -old Duxt Dux Agenda.” Trump has hinted at Musk’s eventual game, Musk has been fighting with Trump’s trade advisor on the rates, the president’s economic policy and the White House. He withdrew the controversial anti -debt work from Musk In Social Security administration.

It is unlikely that Musk disappears completely: its use of social networks is compulsive for the limit and has already suggested that he wants to spend $ 100 million more on the Trump agenda, but last week focused on the rate has shown how quickly even the richest man in the world who is also an advisor to the upper White House may disappear from the news cycle.

“There is some concern in some sectors that Trump will take him to the sidewalk, and then we spend all this time building this type as a focal point, but he has gone,” said Glenn Ivey (D-MD) to News themezone.

Ivey said Trump himself, and the economic damage he is doing with tariffs are good goals for Democrats: “We just need to remind people who are there and point it out.”

Representative John Larson (D-Conn.) He is a veteran legislator who has served in the Chamber since 1999. Remember the overreach of a second term of a previous republican president, George W. Bush, whose attempt to privatize Social Security promoted the Democrats to a massive victory in the elections of the mid-term chamber of 2006. Instead of choosing a villain, Larson said that the villa Democrats should keep their focus on Trump’s threats to federal social and health programs.

“The things that seek to try to attack Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will continue to be the central base, that is the democratic policy number one, the Banner problem of which Franklin Delano Roosevelt took us out of depression to modern politics,” Larson said.

The Musk Doge team has wreaked havoc in Social Security administration and has pressed mass layoffs in the Department of Health and Human Services, which Supervises Medicare and Medicaid. Trump has promised not to support real benefits cuts in these programs, but the Democrats have organized multiple press conferences to highlight agitation, especially in Social Security, and insisted that everything is a prelude to privatization.

Now, even legislators such as representative RO Khanna (D-Calif.) And Bernie Sanders (I-VT.), They had He praised the perspective Of the musk that assumes government waste, especially in the swollen defense budget, he told News themezone that they are disappointed with his “Government Efficiency Department” project.

“If the goal is to combat waste, inefficiency and bureaucracy, that is a noble goal,” Sanders said. “The way Dege has operated is totally illegal, scandalous and counterproductive. What they are doing to social security now, the veterans administration, is totally shameful.”

But Khanna still does not agree to make Musk a villain, saying: “We should keep it in problems.” Other grassroots democrats also have their doubts. Representative Seth Moulon (D-Mass.) Said that Democrats need “a positive vision for the future” and admit that they were wrong about border security during the presidency of Joe Biden.

Casar said the Democrats should leave their old social security points. In his opinion, there is no replacement for a good villain.

“If we are willing to say: ‘shoot Elon Musk, because he is stealing social security dollars to enrich himself, and after shooting Elon Musk, we need to start taxing billionaires like him to expand Social Security for each senior in this country,’ then people could really listen to us,” Casar said.

The preference for a more combative public relations strategy is common among younger democrats as representatives. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) and Jasmine Crockett (Texas), and a contrast to the nostalgic reflections of former President Joe Biden about his friends with the Republican senators.

If Musk disappears, Casar said the Democrats would celebrate the victory and remember the voters in half of the exams, as they did before the camera resume in 2018 in Trump’s first mandate.

“When the Democrats saved the law of low price health care during the first Trump administration, we could still campaign that we saved the law of low -price health care when the Republicans tried to take away the medical care of people,” Casar said. “If we shoot Elon Musk, we can still say that, we are against billionaires stealing their money for themselves.”