The Elon Musk Effect

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Bloomberg is having a come-apart over Elon Musk, calling him Trump’s wrecking ball. More like a Christmas gift if you ask me. According to a recent op-ed, Musk is Trump’s “wrecking ball,” demolishing a house of cards or government funding negotiations with his relentless X-posts and unapologetic opinions. Bloomberg has it wrong.

People who used to love Elon for his passion and intellect for a green future, as American Greatness points out in a feature article by Roger Kimball.

The hysteria has been building for some time. It wasn’t so long ago that Elon Musk enjoyed enviable street cred among the brotherhood of snotty, self-congratulating elites. A green energy guru, he made the hearts of the Sierra Club Sultans go pit-a-pat with his talk of “sustainable transport” and solar roofs. – American Greatness

But since he purchased Twitter and turned it into X, free speech is wide open again, and so is where You Are The Media. Now that Elon likes to point out occasionally on his platform, these same people who used to worship his larger-than-life sustainability campaigns have apparently developed cognitive drift.

The US government has just narrowly avoided a shutdown — and the speculation, confusion and concern around tech titan Elon Musk’s power in Washington is rampant. So rampant that President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming press secretary was forced to clarify.  – Bloomberg

The Bloomberg article is dripping with insincere anguish, clearly designed to provoke outrage from the reader. Its tone feels contrived and disingenuous, making it seem foolish and inauthentic.

Let’s not pretend Congress doesn’t treat budget bills like a Cheesecake Factory menu—stuffing in everything and hoping no one notices.

Cutting Spending Is Now Radical

Musk’s criticism mirrors the frustration many Americans feel with the process. Rather than addressing the dysfunction, Bloomberg prefers to scapegoat Musk for calling it out.

For Republicans, it means constantly being threatened with Musk-funded primary threats if they don’t fall in line. It also means facing a more menacing threat from the MAGA mob, the same group that stormed the Capitol four years ago with shouts of hanging then-Vice President Mike Pence. Despite all of this, 38 Republicans ultimately ended up defying Trump and Musk, voting no on the so-called “skinny CR.” Their calculation was likely that there is strength in numbers and that 2026 is eons away in political time. – Bloomberg

The MAGA mob, the same group that stormed the Capital four years ago. Wow. All people who support Make America Great Again were just identified and placed in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021, by this Bloomberg author. Yeah, this definitely looks like derangement syndrome to me.

Elon Musk’s assessments aren’t exactly fringe. Fiscal responsibility is hardly a radical notion, even if it’s now apparently trendy to ridicule anyone who demands it.

Many in DC are simply jealous of Elon Musk and his newfound connection with Donald Trump. They’re also terrified of what DOGE is about to unleash. More will be exposed.

Blaming Musk for shaking things up is an easy narrative, but it’s also lazy. The billionaire’s penchant for controversy doesn’t make him a wrecking ball; it makes him a lightning rod for criticism. Musk is doing us all a public service. If that’s enough to be labeled destructive, maybe it’s time to reevaluate who is tearing things down.

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