The Democratic Party’s Elon Musk meltdown

Published February 6, 2025 12:01am ET



It took two weeks for Democrats to settle on how they will resist President Donald Trump‘s administration. They have decided to stand outside federal buildings in freezing weather and kvetch about how a single presidential adviser is destroying democracy.

For three days, a who’s who of congressional Democrats have spoken at rallies first in front of the U.S. Agency for International Development on Feb. 3, then at the Treasury Department on Feb. 4, and then at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 5, each time decrying Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency as a grave threat to our constitutional order.

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