The people around him are a bigger threat to democracy than Trump himself. All the Project 2025 fascists are certainly angry little fuckers trying to create a monarchical form of government in America
But it's Elon Musk who is currently the gravest threat to American democratic governance. I think we all know that at this point. When Trump was president before, I noted that Trump - unlike every single other president before him - had zero experience in either public service or the military. Trump had never taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution before he did on January 20th, 2017. He didn't "get it".
Musk gets it even less. He's the same autocratic tycoon-type as Trump, but he's steeped in the family legacy of apartheid and all that that entails.
The good news is that - for the moment - Musk does not have the same cult dynamic as Trump. Yes, there are Muskovites. They tend to be the tech bros wannabes. Not a large group. Musk is deeply unappealing as a person in ways that - for some reason - Trump is not.
The more Democrats can run against Musk the better. He will absolutely break some shit that cannot be broken, and when he does, Musk can be the anchor to drag down Trump and the Republican Party.
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