Pete Tucker is a journalist based in DC. He is on Twitter @PeteTucker.
There’s something about the start of a Trump presidency that makes grown men do strange things, like heiling Hitler.Eight years ago, after President Donald Trump ’s first election, white nationalist Richard Spencer couldn’t resist flashing a Nazi salute as he addressed a rally just blocks from the White House .My only comfort was knowing that Musk would be excoriated in the coming news cycle.
During the inauguration.”‘The Actual Truth’Reared in apartheid South Africa, Musk is no stranger to extremism. Like many on the far-right, a favorite target of Musk’s is George Soros, the Jewish billionaire who funds lefty candidates and causes.
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