The capture of Elon Musk’s power is finally charged with resistance. But this is already undermined by the dependence of the party elite from the silicone valley.
The Ilona Musk coup continues, Keeping an administrative state. Trump’s first victory in 2020 caused immediate nationwide protests, which for weeks dealt with many years of civil society campaigning. The gloomy continuation in 2024 did not create a direct wave of dissent. In contrast to the events of eight years earlier, the coalition for the fight against Trump, already tired not only from Trump resistance for a decade, but also from defending Joe Biden’s unhappy presidency, was stunned, demoralized and recalled. In contrast to mass protests was Wide shutdown from newsInternal migration in private despair, common to the beginning of authoritarianism.
Musk’s authority changed all this: a spectacle of the richest person in the world that exercises extra-constitutional power for consideration and perhaps remodel the internal computer network of the federal government, simultaneously puts federal employees on vacation and threatening to close whole agencies and authoritarianism to an immediate threat. Musk’s move was done not only with the expected court problems (which, though welcome, can slow Musc deftly noticeshardly stop it). Significant protests Starting again to escape In America: in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Michigan, Texas, Wisconsin, Indiana, California, Nevada and Washington, Colombia District.
Resistance 2.0 Born in front of our eyes — and there is reason to hope that this can be released from pre-resistance defects: nostalgia for sustainability, slave loyalty to the Democratic Party leadership and a tendency to up Exaltate the theorists of the conspiracy and the track.
Report on Protest in Washington NationChris Leman observe The event of the assembled activists not only on Moscow and Trump, but also on the weakness of the opposition of the Democratic Party leaders, some of which, like the Senate Minority leader Chume Sumer, spoke at the event. According to Leman, “a vivid disimination between the public demand and the National Democratic Party, which operated on the autopilot, became the history of the Treasury protest.”
Democratic leaders who act begin to become more vocal, but finding themselves as a result of the contradictions of their own relationship with the Plutocratic class of the Silicon Valley belonging to Musk.
The most expressive argument against Musk and Trump is a simple class policy: this force is a way for a super ricoric to control the state treasury, accessing potentially profitable data that must be properly preserved by government officials undergoing Congress, and training and training and A base for reducing taxes is being prepared to make it even more wealthy. As the richest man in the world, Moscow makes the perfect villain in this story.
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Senator Bernie Sanders is not the Democrat itself, but an important ally of the party – was the most sincere in this line. He has long called for a partial success for the Democrats not only to Trump, but also a wider oligarchy.
Saturday Sanders published:
Elon Musk, the richest guy in the world, follows USAID, which nourishes the poorest people in the world. Next, it will follow the programs that affect you: Medicaid, Medicare, Community Health Centers, Grants Pell, affordable housing. We can stop it.
This message that Sanders has been repeated for a while – and finally begins to capture. Appearing on a podcast Weekly shows On Friday Note: “Republicans in the House, Senate, Administration, they want to make large tax reductions for their militia donors and wealthy corporations. Follow the money. This is the reality of what is happening. And in this process they want to follow the working class with the bill.”
However this resonant war-war is Politics report On the same day, Jeffris “quietly met with more than 150 donors at the Silicon Valley last week in California-steady step in the efforts of the Democrats to repair relations with once a deep blue district.” According to one of the participants, “the only attention was – as we guarantee that the Silicon Valley remains with the Democrats, because now the silicone valley feels very purple.”
It is difficult to agree on Jeffrist penetration over Silicon Valley with its sharp words against the “militia donors”. As Politics Remarks: “Money in the technological world with which the musk is originally is crucial for the success of the Democrats in 2026.”
The central contradiction is that the electoral in the hope of the Democrats is economic populism – but the Central leadership of the party is fond of plutocratic money. The only way from this impasse is to accept the Bernie Sanders, which rests on small donors, but little evidence that the party wants to monitor this model. Always glad to use the lists of policies who know how to refer to small donors (except Sanders, another main example is the representative of the Alexandria Okosio Cartes). But the main result is the killing of mailboxes of these donors and DMS with increasingly scary and annoying requests for money. A larger party remains slave dependent on large donors.
As guru data nate Silver notes:
Although the migration of the expressed wing billionaires to Republicans is somewhat upsetting the balance, the Democrats were on a long trajectory before being A party of consolidation. Despite Musk’s help, Harris got Almost as much as outside of money as Trump last year. And In fact she had her strongest performance Voters earn $ 100,000 or more a year.
According to silver, the Democrats should make a choice between the strategy either to keep their billionaires or to accept economic populism.
Democrats have long tried to resolve this contradiction, calling on the problem of domination of the class as a moral that distinguishes “good” billionaires and “bad” billionaires. Ken Martin recently went up to the leadership of the Democratic National Committee because of what he was seen as Least to billionaires than his main competitor, Ben Winkler. But during the race guide Martin said also“There are many good billionaires who have been with the Democrats who share our values and we will take their money. But we don’t take money from these bad billionaires.”
But this transition from economic to ethical is false distraction. The question is not whether Musk is “bad” but George Soros “Good” (after all, Republicans consider it the opposite, so it’s just a mirror image of their politics). Question: Do Democrats refuse wildly unequal society, in which billionaires are immensely more fallen over politics than ordinary citizens? When they do this, they should push to strengthen very few “good” billionaires along with many “bad” (which, being wealthy, naturally strive for GOP).
Class policy is by definition polarized, raising the main question: on which? Are you with billionaires – or with people?
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If the Democrats do not be able to express this class of politics clearly, they will not survive the Republicans on economic issues. This will change the policy to the infinite farce of cultural antics, whose theater convention has long mastered.
As the silver says, “This situation requires Something I describe as a strategy for enhancing or complexity: Either Democrats should be with billionaires or against them. Martin’s average platform that divides the world into naughty and pleasant billionaires is probably the worst option. “
We can add that the strategy of Martin and Jeffrist, which plays on both sides of the street, is also a good way to make all the manifestations and anti-system rebels of you.
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