When Elon Musk purchased Twitter a year ago, the federal government and its allies embarked on maybe the single most desperate and obvious campaign to destroy a private citizen that’s been undertaken in this country in modern history. Not since Julian Assange began exposing war crimes by the Pentagon has the Left turned on one of its heroes so quickly and with so much vitriol. Like Julian Assange, Musk was a catalyst for public discussions that our leaders simply do not want us to be having. Under Musk, Twitter allowed everyone to speak directly to the people in power. It allowed average Americans to say what they’re actually thinking, free of censorship, at least for the most part. And that’s the one thing the federal government simply cannot permit. So Musk became a villain, virtually overnight.
The turn wasn’t exactly convincing. Indeed, it’s difficult to overstate the extent of the absurdity of this particular smear campaign. They really aren’t even trying to hide it. Joe Biden’s S.E.C. launched an investigation into whether Musk was trying to build himself a “glass house” using money from Tesla — which he single-handedly transformed from near-bankruptcy into the most profitable car company on the planet. Meanwhile the DOJ sued Musk’s company for not hiring enough refugees, which was so absurd on its face that a judge recently shut the whole thing down. And regulators working for the state of California — who have never produced anything remotely useful in their lives — went after Musk because his assembly plants are apparently hotbeds for white supremacy, because some employees supposedly overheard a racial slur or something. At the same time, the media reassured us again and again that Twitter was on the verge of failing. It would collapse during the midterm elections, they told us last year.
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