Elon Will Be Back and Everything Will Be Fine
Kurt Schlichter
Elon Musk is a genius and a great American to whom we all owe a debt of gratitude. Any one of his myriad achievements is enough to make him a legend. His purchase of Twitter broke the back of the leftist narrative dominance. SpaceX has revolutionized rocketry. Tesla has not only created a fantastic vehicle and thousands of jobs but has also made a significant amount of money for many regular shareholders like me. Starlink was saving lives in Texas this weekend. But his idea for a third party is a bad idea, and he’s going to see that soon enough, and he’s going to realize that he is not a movement, but rather, a part of a coalition, and he’s going to come back and rejoin us.
And we’re going to welcome him with open arms.
Elon Musk’s challenge is that he is an engineer. He sees politics as a problem to be solved, not an art to be mastered. It’s very American to dislike the idea of politics. It’s hard to find a more American idea than that politics suck besides baseball, apple pie, and an AR-15 in every home. But that’s always been a flaw in the America psyche. Politics is simply the process of governance, and unless you’re an anarchist or a libertarian, we’re going to have to have a process of governance, and that means we’re going to have a process by which we create policies and collect the resources to execute them. This process requires deals and compromises. It just does.
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