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Elon Musk's global far right targets the UK

Elon Musk's global far right targets the UK

The alliance between plutocracy and mobocracy

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Nick Cohen
Aug 05, 2024
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I am sorry to use simplistic language. But sometimes there’s no avoiding it. Elon Musk is an enemy of my country. He hates the best of it: our liberal democracy. And he admires the worst: the race baiters and barking mad conspiracy theorists.

Like the rest of the Trumpist far right he helps to lead and to fund, Musk is…

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