Donald Trump and Elon Musk Are Improbable Working-Class Class Heroes
Kurt Schlichter
It seems bizarre that a couple of guys with a few hundred billion dollars between them are the voice of America’s working class, but that’s what they are. And it’s not like they’re pretending. They’re not pulling some scam or trick. Both of them really believe in what they’ve been saying. You know it because they’ve been saying it forever. With Donald Trump, his politics are pretty much the same conservative-Jacksonian-populist (yeah, that’s a thing) politics he’s always had, even though his party affiliation has switched. The same with Elon Musk. Elon Musk is no regular conservative. He has just always believed in things like free enterprise, free speech, and small government – you know, the same things the nominally conservative conservatives always talk about but never get around to conserving.
And you know what? Working people appreciate that. These guys haven’t changed. Their old party did. It started holding the working class in contempt and has sought to silence, disarm, and disenfranchise its members. Neither Donald nor Elon signed on for that.
Working class Americans also appreciate the fact that these guys actually build things. This is important. Today, the Democrats – the party of many of the working class until recent decades – are the technocrat party. It’s the party of HR directors, consultants, unionized teachers, lawyers, government bureaucrats, welfare bums, weirdos, climate fanatics and others who add only friction as opposed to value. They never build anything. They never make anything. They barely do anything except whine, complain, make up rules, and try to boss other people around.
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