Morning Joe Pundit Calls For ‘Radical’ Democrat Protests Until Elon Musk Is ‘Subject To Questioning’

Morning Joe pundit Ed Luce called for Democrats to adopt a “radical” playbook to push back until there is accountability for the changes being implemented by President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting bulldog Elon Musk.

The administration declared that Musk is operating as a “special government employee” as he oversees the government efficiency initiative that has shuttered USAID and reportedly accessed the Treasury’s critical payment system. The designation makes the billionaire, who is also reportedly not being paid for the role, subject to government ethics requirements.

Luce appeared to speak with MSNBC host Ali Vitali after writing a Financial Times editorial entitled While Democrats Sleep, which argued that “Trump is burning America’s rule book” and that the country “lacks an opposition leader to spearhead the fight back.”

Sounding the alarm on the Democrats has, so far, been ineffective in pushing back.

We all, at some level in our brains, have the Sinclair Lewis novel It Can’t Happen Here in our head. We have that sort of deeply ingrained complacency. Not only can it happen here, it is happening here. And I don’t think that Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and other leaders, we’ve yet to see what Ken Martin will be like as a DNC chair, I don’t think they’ve really taken that on board.

Luce continued to blast promises to bring bills to oppose Musk’s access to the federal payment as pointless.

Yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Schumer and Jeffries announced they’d have a Stop the Steal bill to prevent Musk from taking control of the federal payment system. This is something that’s already illegal, and it’s a bill that would stand no chance of passing. So it’s the kind of gimmickry that we’d have in a normal time of politics.

This is a coup that’s happening. It is happening here. It’s happening now. Strategies based on winning the midterm elections 21-months from now could be completely hypothetical if they carry on at the speed they’re going and with the intention they are signaling to us every single day.

So I think this requires a far more radical and drastic sort of rethink of what the Democrats’ democratic strategy should be.

Instead, he added, the Democrats should adopt the Senate Republican playbook to frustrate efforts until Musk can be brought to heel and questioned.

It’s worth studying what Mitch McConnell did as Senate minority leader during Barack Obama’s presidency, during those two terms, he managed to use every trick in the book to delay, to filibuster, to deprive the majority of time, to basically frustrate and force them into sort of trade offs they didn’t want to make. That is one thing I think Chuck Schumer should be doing.

There should be blanket holds on Trump’s nominees until the real one, Musk, is actually subjected to questioning and is actually subjected to conflict of interest rules and ethics regulations that the tiniest bureaucrat, you know, who can’t accept a $20 lunch, [is subjected to]… Musk can waltz past a $20 billion conflict of interest, and they don’t have the right to question him? This makes a mockery of democracy, of a constitution, of the rule of law. So that would be a start.

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