Elon Musk emerges as the top booster for Republicans with $276M donations

mindslight

When the whole "why yuo still make debt go up?" kerfuffle happened after "DOGE", I could almost squint and see a legitimate political philosophy and a propaganda-addled political noob who just didn't understand what the Republican party has been practicing (vs preaching) for decades. But continuing to plow support into a movement that openly hates this country while acting on it ? About the only good faith narrative/ideology I can come up with is that he's angling for anarcho-capitalism with the US Government falling by the wayside. Except with bedfellows of religious fundamentalists and foreign malevolent actors also angling for the downfall of the US for their own wildly different visions, it should be glaringly apparent that it's not going to be some peaceful transition to an idyllic world of less government. Rather we're entertaining a catastrophic collapse with other power structures filling the vacuum. Good luck trying to have your corpos step into the role after they no longer have the US military at their disposal, but still need to compete with the other nation-state militaries that will still exist. I guess the distinction doesn't matter if you're wealthy enough that the conditions of most people's everyday lives don't affect you? And he's sufficiently invested in China (ie the next hegemon after the Republican project runs its course) that he figures he'll have a place in that order as well?

iJohnDoe

He knows how corrupt the whole party is. He needs to keep them in power so he can keep getting what he wants. Even if it weren't corruption, he knows how to manipulate them at this point to play to their side of, "If it hurts Americans or hurts Democrats, then let's do it."