This article makes clear why we can’t let a president — any president — treat AI like a personality cult issue where his “trust me” tweet replaces real, democratic oversight. Calling legitimate safety concerns a “hoax” and pushing for unilateral control is exactly the wrong response to a technology that already concentrates corporate power, invades privacy, spreads disinformation, and threatens jobs and civil liberties. Progressives should be loud about this: we need strong, enforceable rules — transparency, independent audits, meaningful worker protections and retraining, antitrust action, privacy safeguards, and international agreements — not a blank check for Big Tech or a claim that a “strong” leader is a substitute for laws and institutions. The economy benefits cited in the article don’t justify burying the harms that fall hardest on working people and marginalized communities. Congress must act, and people should demand democratic control over how this technology is developed and used, not let it be decided by CEOs or executive fiat. 😟