‘Take The Red Pill’: How Elon Musk Came To Embrace The Republican Party

Opinion

‘Take The Red Pill’: How Elon Musk Came To Embrace The Republican Party

Ben Zeisloft

Americans are used to multibillionaires like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Michael Bloomberg favoring progressive policies and the Democratic Party. Yet Elon Musk — the wealthiest of them all — recently surprised the nation by announcing that he is voting Republican.

Musk — the CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX, as well as TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year — is worth $215 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index. Amid his rise to become the richest man in the world, one of Musk’s primary obstacles has been leftist lawmakers and their agendas.

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