It appears that the usual suspects in the Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) are determined to make a play for Elon Musk's approval and money.
The man is a narcissist racist, as sexist, a junkie, a pathological liar, a ferociously virulent anti-labor union employer, and f%$#ing insane, at least in the eyes of this non-psychologist.
Attempting to rehabilitate him is nuts. Attempting to do so without any indication that he has made even a perfunctory effort to change borders on criminal incompetence.
Add to that the fact that this guy is more widely loathed than Ted "I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz" Cruz, and this becomes what Tallyrand did not say, "Worse than a crime, it is a mistake."
Elon Musk has been the Democratic Party’s boogeyman since shortly after President Donald Trump deputized him as a top adviser. Their bitter breakup could complicate that.
After Musk called the GOP’s “big beautiful bill” a “disgusting abomination” and threatened to “fire all politicians” who backed it, the president mused on Thursday that he didn’t know if the two would still have a “great relationship.” Musk responded on his powerful platform X, “Without me, Trump would have lost,” adding “Such ingratitude.”
The split is giving some Democrats pause in their portrayal of Musk as a chainsaw-wielding, bureaucracy-breaking villain — with some saying they should give him another chance. After all, the billionaire tech mogul said he voted for former President Joe Biden in 2020 and gave a tour of SpaceX to then-President Barack Obama.
The Apartheid Era Emerald Heir Pedo Guy™ has shown us who he is, and it is that he is a miserable and pathetic excuse as a human being. (This was obvious for years before his turn on Ecch [Twitter], but his cunning as a sales weasel seemed to confuse a lot of people)
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who represents Silicon Valley and has known Musk for over a decade, said Democrats should “be in a dialogue” with Musk, given their shared opposition to the GOP’s megabill.
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Other Democrats are warming back up to Musk as he leaves the White House and starts to break with his former boss in ways that could benefit the opposition.
“I’m a believer in redemption, and he is telling the truth about the legislation,” said Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.). But, he added, Musk has “done an enormous amount of damage” and “there are Democrats who see his decimation of the federal workforce and the federal government as an unforgivable sin.”
Liam Kerr, co-founder of the group behind the centrist Democrats’ WelcomeFest meeting this week in Washington, said “of course” Democrats should open the door if Musk wants back into the party.
Yeah, WelcomeFest, where "Democrats" were on stage complaining that labor unions are just so inconvenient.
“You don’t want anyone wildly distorting your politics, which he has a unique capability to do. But it’s a zero-sum game,” Kerr said. “Anything that he does that moves more toward Democrats hurts Republicans.”
Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.), the chair of the New Democrat Coalition who earlier this year supported the party’s targeting of Musk as the Department of Government Efficiency slashed through federal agencies, said that with his departure from Washington, Democrats shouldn’t make Musk their focus. “We should be talking about what we’re doing for the American people,” he said.
What you should be doing for the American people is fighting against people like Elon Musk.
It's only amoral careerists, like, for example, the chair of the New Democrat Coalition, who only care about their careers and where they are getting their next campaign donation from, who think that this is a good idea.
To quote Robert Graves on Germanic tribes, Elon Musk, "Must be struck into the dust, struck down again as they rise. Struck again while they lie groaning, while their wounds still pain them; they will respect the hand that dealt them."
He is not just a cancer on society, he is the avatar of what is wrong with our society.