The left has been ambivalent at best about tech giants once their potential for evil became obvious. Elon Musk has become the face of the new administration. What does that mean for American politics?
It means Musk, Ramaswamy, and the rest of the techno-aristocracy are going to be the unambiguous targets of the left in 2026 and 2028. They’re going to wear all of the failures of the Trump administration–possibly even more than Trump himself, who will become a lame duck the day he takes office.
It means populism is going to migrate back to the left, for better and for worse, in relatively short order.