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I'm sure everyone has their own place, but for me it was in general tiwtter, and the final straw was this: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519735033950470
by CJefferson 4y ago
I'm sure everyone has their own place, but for me it was in general tiwtter, and the final straw was this:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519735033950470144 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519735033950470144
Given the presidency of Trump, I don't see how anyone in good faith can say the right hasn't moved -- unless of course you believe the right was always as racist as Trump, the only difference is he said it out loud.
He claims to be "balanced", but I haven't heard him say anything negative about the right, or far-right, except generic statements.
- adastra22 4y agoA cartoon about the political center moving to the left? That’s destroying his personal brand? (The far right has always been bad. They just used to be better at packaging it. Remember Nixon and Kissinger?)
- markoman 4y agoThat cartoon that Musk made famous is from Colin Wright, a blogger who considered himself a leftist until gender politics reared itself. Yet Musk and Wright both seemed to forget about the Tea Party revolution and how it morphed into the birther & then Trump 'movements'. His blog's title is 'Reality's Last Stand' - a title of bracing shamelessness considering its political roots. He's quite a fit for Musk, surely.
- adastra22 4y agoMore like the area Party got co-opted by the same forces that would later give us birthers and Trump. But the Tea Party itself was actually started as more of a mainstream and sensible movement which gave us politicians like Justin Amash. Who, like this cartoon, suddenly found themselves out of alignment with their party. Both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party have moved away from center: a trend since the creation of CSPAN, I would argue.