David Cameron and George Osborne were CLs. They cut spending everywhere they could, reduced regulations, and relied heavily on the private sector to police itself. As a result, it was easy to draw a direct line between the British government’s actions and the Grenfell Tower fire.
Something similar is going to happen in this country sooner or later. It may be an avoidable plane crash; it may be an epidemic; it may be a problem with the food supply; it may be something else entirely. But the public health and safety will be damaged by Trump and Musk’s chaotic attempts at cutting spending and deregulation, and they will be quite rightly blamed for it.
Musk, in a sense, won’t care; he is prepared to accept collateral damage, and he can’t be voted out of office. But Trump and the GOP will have to deal with the falling polls. My guess is they will do it by showing Musk the door.