Chuck Darwin<p>Democrats’ current messaging strategy isn’t working</p><p>One more focused on Musk and the threat his work poses to the lives of everyday Americans might be better. <br>Some Democrats have already begun this pivot<br> — emphasizing Musk’s access to everyday Americans’ personal data and potential meddling with entitlements like Medicare and Social Security in order to rip them off.</p><p>It’s the message that some progressives in particular have been using, <br>including when they rallied outside the Treasury Department last week, after news broke that the DOGE team was seeking control of the government’s system for issuing payments. <br>“An unelected billionaire and his team have been given full and unfettered access to our taxpayer money and our government,” <br>-- Rep. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Maxwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maxwell</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alejandro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alejandro</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Frost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Frost</span></a> shouted at a February 4 protest. <br>“The fact an unelected billionaire has access to all your private information is a problem … [access to] Social Security Numbers, the federal payment system, which means he’s calling the shots over our taxpayer money.”<br>And it’s how Sen. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elizabeth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elizabeth</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Warren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Warren</span></a> has been talking about DOGE’s infiltration of the CFPB over the weekend: <br>“For every American who doesn’t want some weird Elon Musk suck-up searching through your personal private data, this is your fight,” <br>she said at a protest at the CFPB building on Monday. <br>“Elon Musk is trying to shut down the CFPB so Wall Street can cheat and scam you as much as they want.”<br><a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/399786/democrats-trump-resistance-democracy-norms-elon-musk-doge-division" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vox.com/politics/399786/democr</span><span class="invisible">ats-trump-resistance-democracy-norms-elon-musk-doge-division</span></a></p>