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It’s not onerous to see why Elon Musk has turn into a favorite of the “new proper”, the rebel group of irony-poisoned MAGA populists that is taken management of the US conservative motion.
He’s, in any case, a billionaire businessman who loves speaking about free speech and posting right-wing memes on Twitter, and hates cancel tradition, unions and journalists. He has a Trump-like fan base that worships him as a rise-and-grind visionary who’s each a technical genius and an everyman. He even fulfils the trope of a disgruntled Democrat voter who’s now recommending people vote for Republicans on this week’s midterms (though he nonetheless claims he’s an impartial).
He’s been embraced by the precise. Figures just like the influential on-line account Libs of TikTok, QAnon-believing Consultant Marjorie Taylor Greene and Senator Ted Cruz all celebrated his takeover of Twitter. Final month, the GOP even positioned him by itself Mount Rushmore: “Kanye. Elon. Trump.” it tweeted.
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