The reality is that US government has always been a private club for the billionaire class, they just used to have the decency to hide it behind closed doors. Musk’s real crime is skipping the velvet rope and letting us all see the sausage being made. Bravo, Elon, for finally making oligarchy transparent.
Exactly, millions of people are falling out of the liberal mainstream right now. They’re becoming open to new ideas as a result, and unless communists can present them with a narrative that resonates with them, then they will inevitably move right.