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Who’s Afraid of Elon Musk?
A chorus of corporate media doomsayers, that’s who.
As the post-election debate rages on, particularly among disheartened and disillusioned Democrats, one figure in President-elect Donald Trump’s orbit seems to be drawing special ire from the press.
Tesla billionaire and social media mogul Elon Musk’s thunderous entry into the political sphere has disrupted conventional narratives, particularly among progressives in the media and political landscape.
The reaction from media progressives has been something to behold. The reaction of left-leaning corporate media outlets has been, as the Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote on October 28, 2022, “wild.”
Elon Musk is a “buffoon” media mandarins assured their audiences. “Musk’s father isn’t proud of him” and “Elon Musk is fat” are just two examples of the depths to which media outlets went to defame and degrade Elon Musk in the lead-up to the 2024 election.
Many of the media’s worst attacks happened before Musk — eventually and probably out of sheer exasperation with the left — threw his support behind Donald Trump — for reasons media progressives still can’t fathom.
See lengthy hit pieces like “Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius: The world’s richest man has some embarrassing friends,” — Charlie Warzel…