Elon Musk announced on Twitter that he ‘can no longer support [Democrats] and will vote Republican’ The SpaceX-Tesla CEO, of course, has been existing, and existing well, much before the advent of the US’ last Republican president. For many, his Ayn Rand-meets-Thomas Edison approach is jarring, but for much of America tired of Democrat doublespeak, Musk represents an older, American value that has weakened under liberal fundamentalism – capitalist anti-establishmentism. It is in a polarised US that Musk’s contradictory stances stand out, ironically, as those of an arch anti-polariser. Similarities with Trump may be cherry-picked, but where the two businessmen fundamentally differ is Musk’s success as a strategic. . . .
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