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applegrove

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Mon Dec 12, 2022, 12:23 PM Dec 2022

Elon Musk Is Ruining Trump's Presidential Campaign [View all]

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Elon Musk Is Ruining Trump’s Presidential Campaign

December 12, 2022 at 10:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard 72 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/12/12/elon-musk-is-ruining-trumps-presidential-campaign/

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Joshua Green: “For years, Donald Trump has survived scandal, scorn and defeat and still managed to keep his warlord grip on the Republican Party. Even this month’s epic string of disasters, from his candidates’ losses in the midterms and his dinner with white supremacist Nick Fuentes and professed Hitler-fan Ye (Kanye West) to the tax fraud convictions of two of his companies, might not derail him.”

“But irrelevance might. In the critical weeks since his Nov. 16 campaign launch, the person who has dominated the right-wing attention economy isn’t Trump. It’s Elon Musk.”

“Musk didn’t just take over Trump’s favorite medium, Twitter. He seems to have done so for the explicit Trumpian purposes of striking back at his critics, ‘owning the libs,’ and stoking the sort of generalized chaos that was once Trump’s calling card, before he was banished from Twitter and took up exile in the empty wilderness of Truth Social. He’s succeeded on all fronts.”

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Here is more: https://politicalwire.com/2022/12/12/elon-musk-goes-full-qanon/

Applegrove:

Maybe Musk not only wants to turn Twitter from a multi-party town square into a silo so MAGA base is kept in a right wing bubble, maybe Musk is industrial trawler with a net twenty miles long to capture all the MAGA fishes and haul them away from Trump. He has been outrageous in his tweets. Is he trying to out trump Trump, crack his back, and hand MAGA over to De Santis? Picture another year of outrageous Twitter meme by Musk.

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