Posted on 12/01/2022 8:19:41 PM PST by SmokingJoe
The relentless attacks on Elon Musk since he purchased Twitter should be familiar to most Americans. It’s exactly what Democrats and their media and corporate allies did to demonize Donald Trump.
The McCarthyite formula is simple: Claim you are defending high-minded principles (Democracy! The rule of law! Civil discourse!) to justify efforts to delegitimize someone you’ve identified as a political opponent.
Democrats denied Trump’s presidency from day one; Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden themselves declared for years that he had stolen the 2016 election. In the name of election integrity, Democrats turned a bogus conspiracy theory cooked up by Clinton’s campaign about Russian collusion into years of official investigations that undermined and tainted Trump. When Special Counsel Robert Mueller proved that a lie, Democrats immediately seized on a few innocuous sentences in a Trump phone call with a foreign leader to launch just the third presidential impeachment in U.S. history.
Those events are well-known, but ponder them for a moment. This was a soft coup, a nonviolent version of Jan. 6 that was far more dangerous than the Capitol riot. The effort to remove a lawfully elected president was planned and orchestrated by officials at the highest level of government and the media. While Jan. 6 was a one-off eruption of crazed anger, the false attacks on Trump edged our political discourse toward Orwellian Newspeak by presenting lies and smears as ringing defenses of sacred constitutional values.
The ongoing attacks against Musk are following the same playbook. The man once hailed by liberals as a genius for developing electric vehicles is now Public Enemy No. 1 because he says Twitter should allow more free speech.
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It’s not a trumpification. He’s always been this way.
Quite true. He also owns 1500 satellites, pond to add 10,000 more, and thus has the power to make ideas heard anywhere on Earth without censorship. If that doesn’t scare them, they are fools.
I call it turning him in to Emmanuel Goldstein.
The leftist establish along with media must have a focus of hate at all times.
Few years ago he was on Saturday Night Live and people were angry about it.
They can, and they will if they don't make him kiss their ring.
I meant when Musk was on SNL.
Elon is a global warming pusher trying to sell electric death cars to Republicans. So he’s pretending to be one, even as he has admitted to voting for Biden.
He’s a lib trying to displace Trump.
True but sometimes people wake up. Even Ronald Reagan was a Democrat.
And when he has an accident? What will happen to all of that?
Which had high ratings, putting the lie to your claim.
Actually, Tesla is the # 1 EV seller in the mighty Chinese market where there are no Republicans. Plus the # 1 EV seller in Norway where EV’s make up a massive 65% of all cars sold, with Tesla at # 1.
Thanks for highlighting that Musk loves China and is utterly dependent on them for billions of dollars.
That’s another reason to be suspicious. He refuses to help the freedom protesters in China against regime propaganda flooding Twitter.
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