The energy and scrutiny reserved for Elon Musk can mean far less for the more dangerous American oligarchs. RossBarkan writes
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer. Photos: Getty Images Once again, Elon Musk kicked up a news cycle after declaring that he felt “super bad” about the economy and would cut 10 percent of the workforce at Tesla, the electric carmaker he owns. Joe Biden, inevitably, had to respond. Musk did not elaborate on his feelings — he’s not the sort for astute analysis or introspection — and he eventually backtracked on the vow to slash jobs.
Attention and outrage are not exactly zero sum, but they are somewhat close; energy and scrutiny reserved for Musk can mean far less for the more dangerous American oligarchs. Jeff Bezos’s Amazon is attempting to crush unions wherever they might breathe. The Koch family remains one of the greatest obstacles to combating climate change worldwide. Ken Griffin underwrites numerous right-wing causes at a degree far beyond whatever Musk can try to do.
Such global fame hasn’t altered Musk’s behavior. He embodies a certain kind of early-21st-century internet culture that won’t quite die. The brash, misogynistic keyboard warrior has his patron saint in Musk. On certain issues, he’s been in lockstep with conservatives, including downplaying COVID-19 entirely. His bid to take control of Twitter, liberals fear, would unleash new waves of misinformation and allow banished conservatives to return to the platform, including Donald Trump.
As the Musk black hole consumes every inch of column space left, men like Griffin, the Chicago hedge-fund manager, are actually pumping millions into the resurrection of the Trump-led Republican Party. Griffin gave more than $28 million to Republicans in 2021, outstripping any single GOP donor. He gave $5 million to Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s PAC. He funneled $11 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund and $5 million to the Senate Leadership Fund.
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