Neofascism: Elon Musk thinks… the government should be shut down? …no Democrats should be elected to congress in 2026? …I agree that the absence of permitting reform is outrageous, but blocking that is on he Republicans. Otherwise, what is “outrageous” is the idea that the U.S. government is an effective going concern and that major shifts in what it does and how it does it should be undertaken only with substantial majority support. That is what Musk finds “outrageous”. And that is not where Trump is—Trump wants to punish his existing enemies, not make powerful new ones:

Laura Rozen: Fwiw, a delegation of visiting European lawmakers who support Ukraine told journalists today [that the] GOP reps they met with suggested Trump had given his tacit support for the supplemental [keep-the-government-open continuing-resolution spending bill]… <x.com/lrozen/status/186…>

And:

Ron Filipowski: ‘Republican elected officials are going to rue the day they got into bed with him. I guess this means Musk will back a primary candidate against Mike Johnson now. And the rest of House Republican leadership…

And:

Elon Musk: ‘Any member of the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out in 2 years…

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