Tesla CEO Elon Musk is being set up to be the scapegoat for Democrats if Vice President Kamala Harris loses. He will also be the target of their campaign of retribution.
Musk endorsed former President Donald Trump right after the first attempted assassination of Trump and has now taken to campaigning with and for Trump on the trail. Musk has become the most prominent of the very few GOP celebrity endorsers, driven mostly by liberal media’s obsession with social media platforms such as X, which Musk owns.
Musk’s purchase of Twitter, now X, had already put him in the sights of liberal media and Democratic politicians, as they lost control of what they view as the most influential social media site in the country. Musk’s newfound Republican turn has already made him the target of Democratic politicians, with California passing an unconstitutional “deepfake” law targeting Musk and X while the California Coastal Commission explicitly rejected an increase in SpaceX launches, citing Musk’s politics.
The rage is continuing to build among Democrats. Michigan’s Democratic secretary of state has accused Musk of “spreading dangerous disinformation,” echoing the media parroting of Musk disinformation accusations. Disinformation has been the focus of Democrats going back to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss, during which Democrats blamed “fake news” and Russian Facebook memes for stealing the election.
If Trump wins, there will no doubt be a rabid backlash from Democrats and liberal media that makes the 2016 war on Facebook look like a picnic, and Musk will be the target. Europe and Brazil have already begun censorship fights with Musk and X, and President Joe Biden, Harris, and Harris’s running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), have all listed “disinformation” as a threat that the government must address and that isn’t protected by free speech. So, too, have rank-and-file Democratic bureaucrats such as climate czar John Kerry and health department official Rachel Levine.
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Musk has crossed the lines of being ultrarich but not supporting Democrats, unlike megadonors George and Alex Soros, who have used their billions to reshape the criminal justice system, and being a celebrity but not supporting Democrats like, well, every other celebrity. He has also removed the Democratic vice grip on X that Democrats and liberal “journalists” had used to justify censorship based on “disinformation” accusations, as happened with the New York Post’s accurate story about Hunter Biden’s laptop.
If Harris ends up losing, Musk will be the one who is blamed. He will become public enemy No. 1, and the Democratic efforts to regulate X, and possibly his other companies, will be turned up to 11 on a 10-point scale. In the process, Democrats will try to regulate X to death, or to a left-wing surrender, and shred the First Amendment because they cannot stand when things don’t go according to their script.