Elon Musk defecting to the far-right was an unbelievable Black Swan moment for politics in the West. One of the most influential individuals in the world aligning their politics with what had been a relative ideological fringe and even buying popular distribution for them was an unprecedented step that has already had real world impacts.

A few years ago it seemed that liberal progressivism was still on an unstoppable roll but I think that Musk may succeed in halting or even destroying it over time.

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not trying to be snarky, but having had the displeasure of dealing with actual, bone fide, real-deal "far right" types as the connotation implies in the current zeitgeist, media-defined defamatory labels against partisan opponents is tiring and unhelpful to addressing actual bad guys.