Mark Halperin, a political analyst, along with former Democratic National Committee official, Lindy Li, stated on Sunday that Democrats are completely failing to come up with any sort of plan to combat President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency headed up by Elon Musk.
Ever since Trump took home a massive win back in November 2024, the Democratic Party has come apart at the seams, splitting into different factions concerning how to fight against the president’s agenda. Halperin and Li watched a series of clips on Sunday featuring Democratic lawmakers protesting Musk.
Both individuals made the case on “Sunday Report” that the Democrats’ current strategy is ineffective and misguided.
“I’m not a medical professional and I generally urge people not to try to make diagnoses over Google, but this one, I don’t think even requires a Google search,” Halperin went on to say during the segment. “They’re discombobulated by Elon Musk because of his power and influence and how quickly he’s moving. And I think most smart Democratic strategists say, ‘Stop attacking the man and focus on the ideas and the impact some of his moves are making,’ but they just don’t seem to be able to resist going after him personally.”
“It’s essentially weak sauce. You don’t have much of a fight against President Trump and they’re extremely frustrated to see that most Americans support, for example, his efforts on mass deportations,” Li joined in. “The silent majority is fully behind him and they’re losing their minds. That rally that we just watched was so cringe. I almost have second-hand embarrassment.”
“Nearly 60% of Americans back Trump’s illegal immigrant deportation agenda, according to a Feb. 9 CBS News poll,” The Daily Caller reported.
Li then smacked the Democratic Party by stating they lacked an “inspiring leader” and slammed them for opting to elect David Hogg, an anti-gun advocate and survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting, as the organization’s vice chair.
She then pointed out how Hogg was previously a big supporter of abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, ICE, and also wanted to “defund the police” in a number of X posts dated from 2020.
“They’ve learned nothing and they’re doubling down on all the mistakes that got them here in the first place,” she rightfully stated.
Chris Cuomo, host of NewsNation, said something similar on Wednesday, stating that Democrats who are denouncing all of the actions being taken by Musk and Trump reveal that they haven’t learned anything from their butt spanking in 2024.
“It seems like anything that Trump or Musk does, they have to condemn, and they have to condemn it on the basis of the people personally,” Cuomo explained. “Trump is a Nazi. Musk has apartheid roots.”
“And to me, it just proves they haven’t learned their lesson yet, that they should be in the better idea business. And they do seem like they’re defending the status quo,” he concluded. “They’re just defending the establishment. And I don’t think that’s where you want to be right now. You want to be in the business of better, and they seem like they’re still in the business of painting the other side as worse.”