“The fact that a majority of Democratic voters would support imprisoning Elon Musk for trying to make government more efficient is a shocking indictment of the modern left,” Heartland Institute’s Justin Haskins said, reacting to a national survey of U.S. voters.
“Since he agreed to lead President Donald Trump’s effort to reduce government waste, Elon Musk has become so hated by liberals that they would overwhelmingly favor a law to put the high-tech billionaire behind bars,” Rasmussen Reports noted Thursday, announcing the results of a national Rasmussen/Heartland survey.
Musk, who leads Pres. Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been under attack from both liberal media and Democrat lawmakers for his work to weed out government waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer money.
The Rasmussen/Heartland survey asked U.S. likely voters the following question:
“Would you support a hypothetical law that would imprison Elon Musk for his role in DOGE?”
More than half (54%) of Democrat voters said they “strongly support” a law to imprison Musk. In all, 71% of Democrats said they would at least “somewhat support” the law to put Musk behind bars for his work to save taxpayers’ money.
“We’ve reached a point where many Americans would rather unjustly punish innovation than fix the broken systems Musk was trying to reform,” Heartland’s Haskins said.
Fully 80% of self-identified liberal voters said they support the law to jail their political enemy, including 69% who said they “strongly” back such a law.
Likewise, 81% of voters who said prefer socialism to the free market said they’d like a law to jail Musk.
The survey asked the following question:
“Which of the following do you think is better? A free-market economic system, or socialism?”
More than half (55%) of those who said they favor socialism said they strongly support a law to jail Musk, while another 26% said they somewhat support it.
Among all U.S. likely voters, 54% said they at least somewhat support the hypothetical anti-DOGE, Jail-Musk law, while 36% reported that they oppose it. Ten percent said they aren’t sure what they think about the idea.