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It’s the nazi salutes, the way he openly buys votes with illegal raffles, spearheaded the destructive chaos that was doge etc etc
Everyone knows a large part of America hates musk for those types of antics.
How are you unaware of their gripes?
You can personally elected to discard the reasons because you don’t agree…
Err but you do realize disagreeing with other people doesn’t make their reason for doing something disappear?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/victory-court-rules-op...
For some context, wealth inequality reached the greatest level ever in America's history last year. The gap will grow again this year. Historically, there is a strong correlation between wealth inequality and political polarization in America, and beyond.
I recall people making similar claims about Reagan, for different reasons. I ignored those as well.
Perhaps this is why things have become worse? (because so many did the ostrich)
What we are seeing has a cyclical aspect to it, wealth inequality grows, people are eventually moved to action, things get better, we grow complacent. That does not mean there is nothing unprecedented, each cycle has unprecedented actions and happenings.
For a clear point of difference, computers and the internet did not exist the last time. We also have Ai as an emerging technology. The advent of the computer changed automation, the scale and speed we could create it at, as well as the nature of new task creation. We stopped creating new tasks for labor (or those who do not attend college). This all coincides with Reagan, hence the shallow associations. Also at the same time was a long period of deregulation, financialization, and globalization of the economy.
Another point of difference, in our lives, is that America has never had a president who spends so much time thinking about monuments with their name on it. Nor have we seen such open nepotism.
It says something when you project the bipartisan-ness onto others because they speak out about one of them in a single comment. We need to stop these kinds of reactions. They do not help us come to shared understanding or consensus.
Daron Acemoglu's 2024 Nobel Laureate lecture is a good one, even though he is a credentialed elite, his research and perspectives are important ones to encounter. The subject is the interplay of technology, automation, politics, and economy. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for reframing economics in a larger social and political landscape which the models have not, and likely cannot, capture. Simon Johnson (who speaks after him) talks about the history of European colonialism, extractive institutions, and their predictive power into the global inequality (does a former colony print chips or sew shirts?)