The 'device sovereignty' phrase captures a real tension — AI agents now consume more tokens than humans, and the centralized infrastructure assumption behind most AI deployment faces genuine physical limits. The problem is that the campaign chose to carry this argument inside political content about DOGE contracts and national security conspiracies , which is precisely the framing that causes technical practitioners to dismiss the underlying concern. A legitimate critique of cloud dependency — that it concentrates infrastructure risk and data exposure — got bundled with content that reads as influence…