As complicated as he is funny
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The felt need of some tech-besotted pundits to find deep rivers of complexity in the extremely simple-minded reactionary politics of Elon Musk is a pathology:
lol swisher, he's so complex – he sorta likes trump, sorta doesn't, obviously contains multitudes, much like a god pic.twitter.com/Nea6d59S5k— Atrios (@Atrios) December 15, 2022
Using “do they like Donald Trump personally” as your metric for whether they have conservative politics is particularly ridiculous. Mitch McConnell viscerally loathes Trump and and doesn’t make him any less of a standard-issue reactionary.
But what I really do not believe is that Musk is any funnier in person than he is online, and nobody has ever been less funny online, even Richard Cohen.
Not only is Musk’s political story uncomplicated, it should be very familiar by now:
Nevertheless, like Trump, Musk is a businessman whose appreciation for public subsidies pulled him left, before his antipathy for unions, taxes, and social-justice politics — and hunger for online sycophants — pulled him right.
Musk may still prefer to style himself as a nonpartisan independent. But he is a DeSantis supporter who directs the lion’s share of his campaign contributions to Republicans, opposes tax increases and labor organizing, and insists that a “woke mind virus” threatens humanity with extinction. In 2022, that makes him a conservative. It is that simple.
It’s not hard. And somehow I don’t think we’ll be getting a TWITTER FILES series on the decision to ban ElonJet.