Musk is more than a surprise. It’s a meteorite that passes at the end of the campaign. Few progressive voters today embody the demons of xenophobia, racism, and predatory capitalist greed like Elon does.
Trump returns to Butler with Elon Musk to rekindle the energy he had after the first attack
Experts in North American politics say that in October there is always a surprise that significantly changes the course and even the results of the November presidential elections in the United States. In 2024, many analysts attribute such a surprise factor to the Middle East and Netanyahu’s military decisions. Demographers and strategists are doing calculations and graphs to try to anticipate the extent of the damage that these images of war and genocide of the Palestinians and Lebanese whom the Israeli army serves daily can cause in the Democratic base, assuming that their impact on the Republican base will tend to zero.
Others, however, consider that historically the impact of foreign policy on North American elections has generally been much more limited than we Europeans like to think. Americans would vote more or less like us, with their wallet in one hand and their heart in the other, thinking above all about local policy issues.
Distant wars matter to us but they do not decide our vote. More than foreign policy, the economic situation and the impact of inflation during Joe Biden’s mandate would be one of the questions that could decide the final score.
To the classic question rhetorically phrased in many election campaigns, whether you are better or worse off than four years ago, many Americans may have come, looking at their household accounts, to the conclusion that they are in a worse situation, that their money is worth less. and things are more expensive than when Donald Trump governed; Whether this evidence constitutes a merit or a demerit of the former president seems to be a completely secondary nuance.
A few weeks before the elections, polls tell us that the Kamala effect, which had rejuvenated that part of the Democratic base apathetic at the idea of having to vote for Biden, has aged faster than many had expected, while the Trumpist base remains as mobilized, if not more so. than four years ago with the prospect of finally taking revenge for the defeat of 2020. Few languages work better in politics than the language of football to take revenge and win on the field this victory that the rival would have snatched from us from the offices . If you don’t believe me, ask the People’s Party, which has been following the same story for several elections.
I must confess that my hope that the November result means the end of Donald Trump’s political career rests almost solely and exclusively on the person of Elon Musk. If anyone can be the October surprise that analysts are expecting, it’s undoubtedly Tesla’s owner. The emergence in the campaign of someone with an ego even more gigantic than Donald Trump’s may be the best thing to happen to the Democrats since the change of candidate. It’s not that he doesn’t know politics, it’s that he despises it. The margin of error seems kilometric. Democracy is in danger, he said at his first rally with Trump. He knows it well because he represents danger.
Musk is more than a surprise. It’s a meteorite that passes at the end of the campaign. Few progressive voters today embody the demons of xenophobia, racism, and predatory capitalist greed like Elon does. No one has put a better face on fakes and hoaxes as a weapon of mass social destruction to protect personal interests. Elon Musk could well be the last reason why Democratic voters should still go to the polls with Kamala Harris’ ballot in hand.
If Elon was able to destroy Twitter, he might be able to bring down Trump. Don’t lose confidence in him.
