The Super-Rich have a long history of Backing Fascism and Buying the White House: It is Happening Again | Informed Comment |

Musk -- owner of SpaceX, Tesla, and Twitter/X -- had already endorsed the Tyrant and helped fuel his alternative reality, based on lies and fear. Throughout 2024, he amplified Trump's xenophobia and election paranoia with a steady drumbeat of conspiracy theories and disinformation. Messaging his 202 million followers, Musk stoked panic about Haitian immigrants and spread debunked claims that FEMA failed to help victims of hurricane Helene and spent the money instead on migrants.

Regarding the election, Musk asserted that "if Trump is NOT elected, this will be the last election" and wove that lie into a false narrative about the "great replacement" conspiracy theory. He posted a vile, toxic, hate video that purports to lay bare the vast conspiracy: Democrats are expediting the conversion of "illegals" to citizens in an attempt to make America a "one-party state."

Musk amplifies radical right propaganda to the masses that might otherwise languish in the darkest corners of the internet.

With his promotion of fascist fabrications, Musk channels Model-T owner and Hitler-apologist Henry Ford. In 1918 plutocrat Ford, who had just lost a Senate race, purchased a newspaper The Dearborn Independent -- the 20th century equivalent to Twitter/X. Convinced that victory had been stolen from him, Ford bought a platform for his self-promoting populist message, unfiltered by media sceptics and naysayers.