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Elon Musk, despite all of the things he has done to destroy the government services that millions of people rely on, still desperately craves public approval and adulation.
He had it, to a large degree, for his notably non-political work with SpaceX and Tesla—but “canceled himself” by forging a public approval suicide pact of sorts with the most powerful man in the world, The New Abnormal’s Danielle Moodie says on the latest episode.
“They want to do all of these things and then be worshiped for it. And I’m just like, ‘Are you all high?’” Moodie said. “I really do believe that because they have created this echo chamber that makes them believe that there are more people who are aligned with their thinking and their ideology than there are, and when they are faced with reality, it really does knock them on their a--.”
Then, The Bulwark’s Will Sommer joins the show to discuss the MAGA podcast sphere—and how the ideas being floated there in recent weeks are veering into dangerous territory.
“Just in the past two weeks or so, they’ve gotten really into explicit antisemitism and sort of, like, pro Hitler, Hitler apologist type stuff,” Sommer said. Given that in the last election there was a sense that we had underrated the power of these podcasts, it’s notable now that they’re getting into antisemitism.”
Plus! A conversation with ProPublica reporting fellow Nicole Foy about her recent piece titled, “Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.”
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