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https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/11/15/how-america-s-tech-right-came-to-power_6732989_4.htmlHow America's tech right came to power
By Valentine Faure
Published on November 15, 2024, at 8:00 pm (Paris), updated on November 16, 2024, at 11:11 am
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INVESTIGATIONThe role of several Silicon Valley billionaires in Donald Trump's re-election as US president, most notably Elon Musk highlights the influence of a new ideological current bridging libertarian utopias and conservative values.
Of all the people celebrating the re-election of former president Donald Trump, few have as much to celebrate as Elon Musk. Less than a week after November 5, his fortune had risen by $70 billion (around €66 billion), a monstrous return on an investment in Trump's campaign that already seemed inordinate: $120 million over just a few months.
The conversion of the richest man in the world into one of Trump's most fervent activists is a recent one. In 2020, the former Democrat, who used to extol the virtues of his company Tesla regarding its support of LGBTQ+ rights and financed candidates from both parties (though he abstained from presidential campaigns), was asked by the New York Times journalist Kara Swisher about his political views: "I'm socially very liberal. And then economically right of center, maybe, or center. I don't know," he told her. He wished only for the president to be a "normal person with common sense and whose values are smack in the middle of the country."
That Musk has become unrecognizable. Now, night and day, he shares his dark ruminations on X (formerly Twitter, which he bought in 2022) about invading migrants, transgender people and the "woke virus" threatening human civilization. With the zeal of a convert, he dedicated himself to Trump's re-election campaign, leveraging his immense fortune, global communications platform and reputation of entrepreneurial genius. The president-elect recognized this effort, praising him in lengthy panegyric the day after his re-election: "A star is born: Elon! (...) He's a super genius. We have to protect our geniuses. We don't have that many of them."
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