I remember WWII and I don't think he's a nazi: Elon Musk: The visionary who infuriates the left ...
Elon Musk: The visionary who infuriates the left ...
It's a question worth asking, isn't it? Why does Elon Musk, a man ostensibly embodying everything the progressive left once claimed to admire, elicit such unbridled fury from those who ought to celebrate him? The anger, the outrage, the sheer frenzy directed at this single human being is nothing short of astounding. What, pray tell, has Musk done to so deeply offend the sensibilities of the self-appointed guardians of righteousness? Well, I am glad you asked.
Here is a man who is revolutionizing transportation. While I'm no fan of electric vehicles per se, Musk's Tesla has not merely contributed to the electric vehicle market — it created the market. Long before other automakers found themselves tinkering with batteries and range anxieties, Musk was plowing forward, building sleek, high-performance electric cars that people actually wanted to drive.
Call me crazy, but isn't a transition to clean energy exactly what the left has demanded for decades?
Wasn't the internal combustion engine the villain in their apocalyptic narratives of climate catastrophe? Musk didn't just dream up a solution; he put it into practice. He made the green transition desirable, even chic. Yet, curiously, the man who should be hailed as the green messiah is treated like a heretic. Could it be, dare I suggest, that the problem isn't Musk's lack of contribution but his refusal to grovel before the correct altar?
Then there is SpaceX. While bureaucracies bungle and stutter, Musk is launching rockets — actual rockets. Even as I write this, SpaceX is attempting to rescue astronauts abandoned in space months ago by Biden and his team of keystone cops. Imagine that. This is private industry doing at a fraction of the cost and double the pace what government agencies once did but. But no — the left isn't thrilled about this either. Instead of marveling at how one man's vision is making space travel attainable again, they mutter darkly about "billionaires in space" as though Musk's achievements were somehow personally robbing them of their oat milk lattes. Isn't this precisely what they've always demanded: less reliance on fossil fuels, more technological innovation, and renewed commitment to science?
But perhaps it's Musk's social media antics that drive the left to madness. He bought Twitter (or X, if you're feeling cool) and dared to loosen its suffocating chokehold on dissenting opinions. For years, liberals complained about the dangers of monopolies, the corruption of big tech, and the need for platforms to uphold free speech. But when Musk rolled up his sleeves and took on precisely these issues, the response was not gratitude but hysteria. Why? Because he failed to ensure that certain ideas remained censored, quarantined, or otherwise banished from the public square. Apparently, free speech means nothing if people can say things that hurt your feelings.
Even Musk's personality seems to offend. He is not appropriately self-flagellating, you see. He tweets jokes, spars with critics, and, worst of all, appears to enjoy himself. One imagines that, for the left, it is not merely Musk's deeds that are unforgivable but his demeanor. He's not solemn or somber enough about the "state of the world." It is as if they'd prefer their innovators to walk around muttering apologies for their success while toiling away in obscurity. But Musk, to their horror, is having fun.
And let us not forget the job creation. Tesla alone employs tens of thousands of people. Add to that SpaceX, Neuralink, The Boring Company, and all the supporting industries benefiting from Musk's enterprises. He has made immense contributions to the economy, created industries where none existed, and inspired countless engineers and scientists to dream big. Yet, somehow, all of this is overlooked or dismissed.
What, then, is Musk's great crime? It cannot be his contribution to clean energy, space exploration, or free speech. Perhaps his real offense is that he has shown the left what progress actually looks like. Musk does not virtue signal; he acts. He does not pontificate endlessly about theoretical utopias; he builds things.
And that — that — is unforgivable. For Musk has revealed what the left's endless lectures, protests, and manifestos truly are: empty words.
As for DOGE, despite the shrills of horror from the left, Musk is using his brilliance, his innovation, and, yes, even a joke of a cryptocurrency like DOGE to shine a light on corruption and fraud. That's the very swamp the left has been promising to drain for decades. Yet here we are, watching them froth at the mouth over Musk's efforts. They say they want fairness, but when someone steps up with solutions that bypass their bureaucratic machine, they lash out. Musk isn't just leading the charge against fraud and abuse. He's showing the world that the emperor has no clothes — and Democrats simply cannot handle it.
To witness the left's response to Musk is to witness the purest form of ingratitude. Here is a man delivering precisely what they claimed to want: solutions to climate change, advances in science, platforms for free expression, and the end to fraud and abuse in the federal government. Yet they howl with rage because Musk's methods — his audacity, his refusal to genuflect to their dogmas — expose their hypocrisy.
Elon Musk has shown us that progress does not come from shouting slogans or policing language. It comes from hard work, risk-taking, and a willingness to be unpopular. He has shown us that true innovation requires thick skin and a sense of humor. And for that, he is loathed.
So, to the left, I ask: Why are you so mad at Elon Musk? Is it because he has failed you, or because he has succeeded? Perhaps your rage is not really about Musk at all but about the uncomfortable truths he reveals about your own ineffectiveness. While you rage, he builds. While you complain, he creates. While you condemn, he dreams.
Musk's life — imperfect, irreverent, and bold — stands as a rebuke to the pettiness of his detractors. His work is a reminder that progress is not achieved by appeasing the mob but by defying it.
So if that offends you, perhaps it's time to reevaluate what your kind of progress really means.
Scott Brooks is publisher of The Waxahachie Sun and may be contacted at scott@waxahachiesun.com. Brooks can also be seen every Tuesday and Thursday from noon-1pm on the Sun's 'Grit and Good News' livestream show. The show airs live on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitch. You can also see video segments on TikTok under the 'Grit&GoodNews' brand.
Replies to: I remember WWII and I don't think he's a nazi: Elon Musk: The visionary who infuriates the left ...
Musk is an old school Afrikaner and white supremacist.
And he’s not as bright and capable as his cult thinks he is.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-china.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Idiots who think this cannot be trusted on any issue.
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None of this is true
Read Walter Isaacson’s biography on Musk.
All I know is whatever this is only an effed up person would do it. And the guy is a huge supporter
of Germany’s far right party. Otherwise he may be a sweetheart of a guy.
Link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/watch-controversial-clip-elon-musk-155133596.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMo36U99jFatkJXOL4wssS9mBCOS3YcG00U_CST897iovUdyIQ8R2cSSwEjQAvbOvw3w8U6akAGwRzlNK-QHJZ2YZKafgSGkm
Did you hate him when he was a Democrat and supported Obama and Hills?
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Just like Trump…a raving Narcissist with only one goal…his satisfaction…and he’ll warm up to
Anyone he can con. Musk and Trump are two of a kind…and that is a horrible reality for the rest of us.
He changed his mind. True democrats never change their mind
Musk supported Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, Hillary Clinton in 2016, Joe Biden in 2020, and Donald Trump in 2024. In 2014, Musk described himself politically as "half Democrat, half Republican" and "somewhere in the middle, socially liberal and fiscally conservative."
Not until his dark side - click below for his Nazi salutes - was revealed.
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Elon the Nazi.
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Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQNNo2a9xc
Here's what I believe is a more accurate perspective on Elon Musk...
Is Elon Musk a Nazi, and can he get European far-right hardliners elected?
Many people accuse Musk of harbouring Nazi sympathies. The truth is likely more mundane, say experts.
When tech billionaire Elon Musk appeared to perform a Nazi salute to a Republican crowd honouring United States President Donald Trump’s inauguration, social media lit up with accusations that he was a fascist.
When he addressed a political rally of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the German city of Halle, those suspicions seemed confirmed.
“There’s too much of a focus on past guilt and we need to move on from that,” he said, from a giant video screen.
The crowd cheered when he said, “It’s OK to be proud to be German. It’s good to be proud of German culture, German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything.”
And they cheered even more loudly when he accused the ruling Social Democrats of taking a “totalitarian approach” to their beliefs, and finished with “Freedom of speech is the foundation of democracy.”
Party leader Alice Weidel grinned broadly from the podium and clapped.
Is Elon Musk a Nazi? Nazis seem to think so. Christian nationalists, white supremacists and avowed neo-Nazis in the US all hailed Musk’s salute as a historic comeback for their cause.
Musk’s public preoccupations on X, his messaging platform, are certainly libertarian. He fulminates against over-regulation and government waste and obsesses over freeing the potential of the market and of individuals.
He is incensed with what he sees as uncontrolled immigration and cultural cohesion. He seems to believe everyone should stay where they were born – though he himself emigrated from South Africa to Canada in 1988.
As a corollary, he insists on binary gender roles as a means of reversing demographic decline in developed economies.
And he constantly plays on the theme of free speech, insisting that democratic societies are hypocritical in claiming to defend it.
Controversially, he did on one occasion in 2023 endorse an anti-Semitic post on X.
The post read in part, “Jewish communties (sic) have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”
Musk replied then, “You have said the actual truth.”
Does all this make him a Nazi?
“No, he is not [a Nazi],” said Jean-Yves Camus, co-director of the Observatory of Political Radicalism at the Jean Jaures Foundation in Paris. He believes Musk and Trump are self-serving rather than ideological.
“The sort of regime they want to achieve is like an autocracy, the rule of law by one man, with no boundaries. They have no boundaries,” he told Al Jazeera.
“I believe he is ideologically unmoored,” agreed Constantinos Filis, who directs the Institute of Global Affairs at the American College of Greece.
“I don’t see coherent political thought,” said Filis. “His thoughts stem from his business interests and various floating ideas. I mean, what considered opinion of Germany or the AfD leads Musk to declare he will save the planet?”
Filis was referring to Musk’s comment in Halle, “This election coming up in Germany is incredibly important. It could decide the entire fate of Europe, maybe the fate of the world.”
If Musk isn’t a real Nazi, why do far-right party leaders like Weidel and the UK’s Reform Party leader Nigel Farage clamour for his support?
“It’s clear they want his money… and through X, Musk gives them a space to express themselves,” said Filis. “Through fake accounts he may also be giving them the appearance of support from people who may not exist.”
Musk also plays well to the base. “The anti-systemic crowd… see a successful businessman who appears to have made it as an outsider. That is what Musk sells, that he is successful and goes against the system,” said Filis.
If Musk isn’t ideological, why does he bother to woo the far right? It isn’t cheap. He paid a reported $277m into Trump’s re-election campaign, and Twitter, renamed X, cost him $44bn.
Yet the keys to his success did not come from the far right, Make America Great Again politics of Donald Trump.
A $465m loan that kept Tesla afloat came from the Department of Energy in 2009 under former US President Barack Obama, and a $1.6bn contract from NASA that similarly saved his rocket company Space-X from closure after three launch failures came in 2008 under George W Bush, a Republican president who has denounced MAGA politics.
Some believe Musk’s politics are entirely cynical.
“He seems to have done a cost-benefit analysis of the money he can make by supporting the anti-systemic crowd versus the others,” said Filis. “Besides, in a country where institutions work, a businessman has small profit margins. In an unruly society where capitalism is unbridled, he obviously has much more to gain.”
Musk’s interest in Europe may simply be to wreak havoc on its economic and industrial policy, believed Filis.
“He may see competitors he wants to eliminate. The German auto industry is not now at its best, but it can present a challenge to Tesla.”
If Musk was instrumental in helping Trump get elected, can he pull the same off in Europe?
Camus believes right-wing nationalism is actually working against Musk in France. “Some [parties] are so nationalist they are beginning to ask: What President Trump does is maybe good for the US, but is it good for us?” he said.
“This is why [far-right National Rally leader] Marine le Pen did not attend the [Trump] inauguration. Because how can she go to an average French city and explain to voters in the working class that President Trump is putting tariffs on French goods, so that’s one thousand jobs less for us? No way.”
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Link: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/31/is-elon-musk-a-nazi-and-can-he-get-european-far-right-hardliners-elected
You are the Rachel Zegler of Tim Waltz's.
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What a moron. No wonder you loved it.
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Answering this, your post below and JimB's, I suggest you and JimB together contact Mr. Brooks and
posit your opinions with him. My reading of Mr. Brook's opinion is that he is challenging the political left in our country and he is not speaking to any suggestion of Mr. Musk leading Germany politically or any other country although should he i.e., Mr. Musk so desire, I for one don't care and secondly have no interest in controlling any of his endeavors politically or otherwise.
Simply put, I like what Mr. Musk is doing in helping President Trump to accomplish his stated goals. Jim this is where you jump in with some adhominen slur, i.e., magacrat, magamoron, maga..., whatever you prefer, but I digress. I think the essay wrtitten by Mr. Brooks reflects my opinion of Mr. Musk and of course contrary to the opinions of the two of you which, is fine but evidently we'll survive.
Scott Brooks' article extols Musk as a "Self Made" Wunderkind...but in fact he 'gamed' the system
using tens of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to save his ventures and build his fortune...if it weren't for Democrats seeing the future for EVs, he wouldn't have Tesla...and if it weren't for JFK's "Boost" (i.e. Billions of Taxpayer Dollars) for our Space Program and NASA, he wouldn't have so many experienced engineers and scientists at SpaceX. Also, Mr. Brooks pays no heed to what everyone else in the country can see...a thoughtless and ham-handed, slash and burn approach to the supposed work of improving government efficiency...it's not happening...and I'm more than willing to go through his record thus far...starting with all the lies about USAID, and the debacle with our National Nuclear Weapons Stockpile.
I'll grant you Elon is an excellent "Opportunist"...(and Immigration cheat)...but there's nothing he's done that deserves applause...especially when you compare DOGE to Clinton's outstanding bipartisan success in this arena.
Your posts are an unqualified shit-show.
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This is spot on. The rugged individualist visionary is in reality a government subsidized creation
Our money collectively is what he used and what made him. Now he wants to tear down what made his success.
This is an interesting issue.
Back when I was an active Libertarian Party member, the candidate rejected matching funds from the government on principle. I remember thinking this was a mistake, and that if the Libertarian Party ever stood a chance to win, it should accept the handout. Then, when in office,it could move to bar those benefits to everyone.
But you are arguing that anyone who receives any benefit from the government at any time, even earned benefits, is ever after prohibited from later arguing that those benefits, indeed, any and all benefits, should no longer be spent. But your argument seems to guarantee that the government will always grow no matter what.
Not interesting at all. Guy is a flat out hypocrite. Built his fortune on $38B in govt gifts.
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So your system is rigged. Not surprised. That's why candidates like Trump succeed.
You have only yourself to blame for him.
My system? Bwahahaha. Now that’s rich. And candidates like Orange succeed cause idjits like you vote
for them……..3 times. He’s on you, and those like you champ.
LOL...You're an 'interesting guy' ;-)...openly advocate an "OK for Me...but NOT Thee" approach to
government 'matching funds'...and then assert (without evidence) that I argued for subsidies to continue 'ad infinitum'.
The fact of the matter is that our government has provided aid to other EV manufacturers beside Tesla (see linked article)...clearly with the long established intent to help create a competitive market space for those products. As with most new industries, it's a bit of an "art" to know when to reduce or cease such benefits...hopefully, in the spirit of "Free Markets" our Federal Trade Commission will be front and center to decide when it's an appropriate time...and not at all influenced by Elon Musk...I'm assuming you would agree with this.
As it stands right now, Elon Musk is WAY TOO CLOSE to the leadership of this country for Alarm Bells not to be going off in any 'Free Trader's" mind...especially a Libertarian. It is my hope...for Competitive, Free Market reasons...that Elon Musk relinquish or be removed from any role in government, and go back to being the "Controlled" contractor he should be...so as to remove any semblance of a "Conflict of Interest". Then there's his demonstrated ineptitude (planned or un-planned) with DOGE, but that's another matter.
Link: https://evmagazine.com/news/does-musks-tesla-enjoy-preferential-treatment-to-gm-ford
Yup. GM 'leaders' feared innovation would cannibalise existing sales. Upstart Musk capitalized.
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My apologies. I didn’t see the attribution at the end of that long piece.
Scott Brooks isn’t nearly old enough to have experienced ww 2. So immediately he’s a liar.
Yeah, a MAGAmoron.
If it looks like it, smells like it, it probably is it.
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Trump backs Israel and the Jewish Columbia students. But he’s a Nazi? How does that work?
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well, ok, if you say so.
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well, I doubt he made the salute but like trump, he’s lived
a life of hate and naziism. I doubt AOC can be proved a nazi.
PS you’re a moron!
To start GM was creating and producing electric vehicles long ago.
Their issue was they were too good and took them off the market. So Musk is not that genius ev guy you say he is.
The market was there, GM for some unknown reason stopped working on them.
Musk got it done. The others did not.
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Spot on!
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Lies start in the first line. Extremist worship of a neo-Nazi follows.
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As TyroneIrish might say, care to elaborate rather than shout in the wind and walk away?
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1st line: Brooks was not alive in WWII. He does not remember it.
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I wrote the subject line and as much as I'd like to be younger, alas, I was alive during WWII.
Just as a refresher for you, Nazism’s ideology was shaped by Adolph Hitler’s beliefs in German racial superiority and the dangers of communism. It rejected liberalism, democracy, the rule of law, and human rights, stressing instead the subordination of the individual to the state and the necessity of strict obedience to leaders. It emphasized the inequality of individuals and “races” and the right of the strong to rule the weak.
Politically, Nazism favoured rearmament, reunification of the German areas of Europe, expansion into non-German areas, and the purging of “undesirables,” especially the Jewish people.
As I wrote in replying to Frank L, what admissible evidence do you posses that Mr. Musk has ever uterred a word or written a word that would support the views expoused by Adolph Hitler. If you have an argument opposed to the views of the articles author which admittedly, I sdubscrie too, please post in reply or you could B mail me if you'd so desire.
Elon the Nazi!
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Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQNNo2a9xc
Read above.
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Dim, you have outdone yourself.
People on here think you couldn't possibly be a bigger jackass than you already seemed to be, and then you always find a way to hit another level.
🖕🖕🖕
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That's Jarhead saying that.
Idiot.
Did you see any mention in that article of the $38B in Gov’t subsidies and
Aid Elon used to ‘create’ his market positions?…and now wants to deny to others?
As we’re now learning. Elon is a drug addled, conflicted self centered Plutocrat bent on destroying our Democracy…and his actions with DOGE prove it…even to those with Conservative views.
The author thinks that’s a good thing…I submit that’s not true and our Founding Fathers would agree.
Link: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/elon-musks-business-empire-is-built-on-us38-billion-in-government-funding/KN2MGEP65VA2XIIBBGE5UU7GKM/
Huzzah! He’s unraveling a system & angering those who have learned to profit without contributing
People have learned to exist and some flourish in the existing bureaucracy. That’s going away and so is their advantage.
Musk is actually wasting taxpayer $$$…people he illegally fired now need to be re-hired with
back pay and benefits…plus the operations of many agencies have been disrupted and will take time and $$$ to repair…all because Trump and Musk tried an ‘end run’ to avoid conscientious means of achieving spending cuts…like Clinton and rational Republicans did…in their quest to create a Plutocracy.
put into words what every intelligent, common sense, logical, moral person is thinking. beautiful!!!
and posted kindly without a pay wall.
well done, jarhead!
Whelp with his vocal support of the AfD, he is certainly in the neo nazi orbit.
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Do you have admissible evidence of his antisemitism or racial superiority statements or are you just
reaching which you'll have to admit, myself included, have done a wee little bit of in front of a jury?
Of course not, he is about as far left as you can get.
That is why the Dem party keeps losing.
If you read what I said he is a vocal supporter of the far right German party AfD which advocates
that Germany no longer feel guilty about the holocaust and has neo nazi supporters. I didn’t say he made those statements, but his sentiments are pretty obvious unless one is in complete denial. None of the other German parties will form a coalition with the AfD. Why I described him as being in the Neo Nazi orbit.