Even before Elon Musk aligned himself politically with President Donald Trump, he was a target of the unhinged left and its media mouthpieces for the very grave sin of purchasing Twitter (now known as X). They had grown so used to having Twitter as their personal online playground—and they, for years, gleefully got conservatives shadow banned or completely banned from the platform—that they went into full meltdown mode when Musk took ownership.
And not only did Musk take ownership of Twitter, he renamed it, restored banned accounts, did a pre-DOGE era purging of employees and, worst of all for the left, allowed freedom of speech to flourish there. Oh, and he exposed, via the Twitter Files, how the establishment conspired with the previous iteration of Twitter to bury stories that weren’t favorable to Democrats.
This is when Elon Musk began the transformation from tech bro and electric car maker to public enemy. Musk himself said he was now Public Enemy No. 2, behind Donald Trump.
But, celebrities and others, as much as they disliked Musk, loved their Teslas and proudly drove them as status symbols. It’s when he started showing up on the campaign trail with Trump last summer that minds began breaking in a way that we hadn’t seen since the dawn of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
It’s DOGE that broke them for good. […]
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