Elon Musk is Everything the Right Accuses George Soros of Being, But a Thousand Times Worse
Before the right blamed everything on “Woke” and DEI, billionaire George Soros was the guilty party for everything wrong with our country and, by extension, our world.
Soros is a wealthy man although I’m not sure anyone is rich enough to single-handedly fund the social movements Soros is accused of financing furtively.
Conservatives would have you believe that the Hungarian-born philanthropist is responsible for the Women’s March that followed Donald Trump’s election, Snopes, gun control, immigrant crises in both the United States and Europe, and protests against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court.
Soros is the dark, secret figure behind seemingly every leftist social movement. In 2020, Soros was widely held responsible for Black Lives Matter and the nationwide protests that sprung up in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder.
When Donald Trump was indicted in 2023, he and many of his allies argued predictably that Soros was behind it.
To the MAGA mob, Soros is a preeminent bogeyman. He’s the evil puppeteer controlling the world from behind the scenes.
The widespread hatred and demonization of Soros is inextricably rooted in anti-semitism. Soros’ name has become lazy anti-semitic shorthand for “Jew.” Saying that Soros is behind a politician or a movement is a thinly coded way of saying that it’s part of a sinister international Jewish conspiracy.
Conservatives don’t just hate Soros: they see him as a figure of Satanic evil. And when I say “Satanic,” I, of course, mean “Jewish.”
The popular antisemitic conspiracy theory of Cultural Marxism holds that Soros and his evil minions are trying to destroy Western civilization by poisoning bloodlines and encouraging immigration.
Noted antisemite Elon Musk compared Soros to Magneto and claimed he wanted nothing less “than the destruction of Western civilization.”
What’s fascinating to me is that Elon Musk is very ostentaciously doing publicly what Soros’ detractors accuse him of doing in private.
Musk is using his enormous wealth to achieve his extremist political ends. When Musk donated over a quarter of a billion dollars to Trump’s famously transactional campaign, he was very explicitly buying in. Musk wanted something for his investment. Actually, Musk wanted everything for his hundreds of millions of dollars. He got what he wanted.
Trump went through the trouble of setting up a whole newfangled division of government efficiency for Musk to run into the ground the same way that he did Twitter.
The man-baby in the White House even named this new division after a popular meme coin because he knew that would Musk giggle like a little girl and clap his hands together in delight.
The blueprint is the same. Under Trump’s leadership, Twitter went from being a profoundly flawed but ultimately extremely useful and important way to consume and disseminate news, self-promote, and make friends to a fetid right-wing swamp devoted monomaniacally to spreading the free market gospel of Saint Donald J. Trump.
Musk wants to do the same for our government. DOGE, Musk’s Department of Governmental Efficiency, has powers so vague and fuzzy as to be nonexistent.
Nature abhors a vacuum. Musk sensed an opportunity and pounced. He decided to fill the leadership vacuum in the Trump Administration with his massive ego and messianic sense of self as humanity’s savior.
Can you even imagine how apoplectic conservatives would be if George Soros behaved this way? Can you imagine the outcry if Biden repaid Soros’ support by giving him his own quasi-governmental department with fuzzy but massive powers? They’d be rioting in the streets, but because the lunatic angrily siezing power hates the same people that they do (Muslims, the trans community, POC, “Woke”) it’s somehow okay.
Conservatives are more likely to turn on Musk’s minions because they’re 20 somethings with foreign-sounding names, not because what he’s doing is illegal, unethical and obscene.
It’s the Hillary Clinton email kerfuffle all over again. Trump made his followers think that there was something in her emails so dark and disturbing that it would lead to a lengthy jail sentence while flagrantly doing wildly unethical shit himself.
Voters were angrier about what might have been in those phantom emails than they were about Trump’s rampant, extremely public crimes, the same way they’re filled with hatred for Soros for things he might have done but seem mostly cool with Musk doing whatever the hell he wants with a government that, to be fair, he bought fair and square.
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