Politico Nonsense: Dems eye a villain-to-ally arc for Musk [View all]

Did a quick search and didn't see this in GD yet.

Dems eye a villain-to-ally arc for Musk
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook-remaking-government/2025/06/04/dems-eye-a-villain-to-ally-arc-for-musk-00385945#:~:text=ELON%20MUSK%20has%20been%20the,that%20could%20benefit%20the%20opposition.

They are insane - and there is no way the base is going to accept a Nazi Loving asshole who hates black people welcomed into the fold. The tent ain't THAT big!

ELON MUSK has been the Democratic Party’s boogeyman since shortly after President DONALD TRUMP deputized him as a top adviser.

But the billionaire’s recent breaks with the GOP — Musk ripped Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” as a “disgusting abomination” on X this week and threatened to “fire all politicians” who backed it — are complicating the party’s portrayal of him as a chainsaw-wielding, bureaucracy-breaking villain.

A few Democrats are eager to welcome Musk, who said he voted for former President JOE BIDEN in 2020 and gave a tour of SpaceX to then-President BARACK OBAMA, back into the fold.


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.

Others name dropped:
Richie Torres - He basically just killed his Gubernatorial bid.
Liam Kerr - of course” Democrats should, ahem, welcome Musk back into the party.
Brad Schneider

As usual Politico makes it an argument about Moderates and Leftists - when in fact might actually be an argument between the CURRENT base and those who want to welcome Incels (they are Musk devotees).