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Townhall Review | Conservative Commentary On Today's News

From Hero to Villain: Why the Left Turned on Elon Musk | Victor Davis Hanson Explains

Townhall Review | Conservative Commentary On Today's News

Salem Podcast Network

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.7697 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson argues that Elon Musk has become a target of left-wing criticism due to his perceived ideological shift, particularly after his acquisition of Twitter and his impact on social media freedom. Hanson highlights Musk’s revolutionary contributions to technology, alternative energy, and space exploration, contrasting them with the left’s hostility toward his growing political influence.

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0:00.0

Thanks for listening to Townall Review with Hugh Hewitt podcast, bringing to you the best voices on the stories and issues that matter.

0:07.5

Here's another piece I'll trust you enjoy.

0:10.6

So, Victor, you have some thoughts you want to share on Elon Musk, who is the bad boy now of...

0:19.5

He is the bad boy, and I think it was Whoopi Goldward in this age of litigation.

0:25.4

I'd be very careful, but I think she suggested on the view that J.D. Vance and Musk had taken over and they were going to get rid of from.

0:41.6

If I get rid of you mean kill.

0:44.5

Yes. Yes. And what they're trying to do, the left, everybody knows what they're trying to do.

0:50.2

They're attacking Elon on a variety of fronts that he's not elected. Well, he's actually

0:57.5

an appointee now of an actual federal. He's going to be a federal official along with Vivak,

1:04.0

at least on an advisory board. And we're trying to drive a wedge by leaking about him and that, da, da, da, da, da, da, so that Trump and he fight.

1:13.6

Remember, in the left-wing mind, as I said in the earlier broadcast, it's perfectly okay for George Soros to flood the zone with $100 million to get hard left, defund the police, destroy the jurisprudence of their cities,

1:32.7

prosecutors. It's fine for Mark Zuckerberg to get $419, but you cannot do that if you're Elon Musk

1:39.9

and give $250 million to get out the vote in Pennsylvania, for example.

1:44.7

That's a cardinal sin.

1:45.8

So they hate him because they feel that he had a real role.

1:51.8

And they're going after him and they wanted to have Trump turn away from him.

1:57.1

And they don't quite know what to do with him because they keep, you know, they, as I said last

2:03.9

time, Van Jones went on this tirade about these unelected millionaires and billionaires,

2:08.5

but the source of their anger is that, hey, you guys, ever since Bill Clinton, the billionaire

2:16.3

class are ours. If you go on the Fortune 400, all of the top names are left wing. If you look at the size, the magnitude of these wealth, these wealthy dynasties, the Bloomberg dynasty, the Zuckerberg dynasty, the Lisa Jobs dynasty, the Google dynasty. All of them,

2:37.9

the Amazon dynasty, they're all on our side. The Reed Hoffman, they all are on our side.

2:43.4

But this one guy, he was on our side. Elon, we loved him. He was going to displace fossil fuels with this wonderful Tesla.

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