Donald Trump’s second term was just three weeks old, and Elon Musk was riding high—to the point that some wags, myself included, had been referring to him as co-president of the United States—when Robert Garcia, the second-term Democratic congressman and former mayor of Long Beach, California, offered a different description of the world’s richest man: Musk, Garcia declared in a House committee hearing and later on CNN, was simply “a dick.” In something like a heartbeat, both of those moments went hyper-viral, and not surprisingly. Plainspoken, free of politesse, and self-evidently accurate, Garcia’s phallic formulation (and the howls of approval it elicited from Democrats far and wide) succinctly captured the frustration and fury that suffused the opposition party at the dawn of Trump 2.0.