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Beyond the Trump-Musk fallout?

At first impression, it makes no sense that Musk would start firing away at the (admittedly imperfect) budget bill, or escalate to DefCon 1, by tweeting nonsense about impeachment, the Epstein files, or disengaging his space efforts from the U.S. agenda to stay preeminent in space.

After all, he and Trump have roughly the same enemies—the Left that is now delighted at their quarrel—and the same general aims: to repeal the progressive cultural project, to restore meritocracy, to strive to ensure the U.S. is globally preeminent economically and militarily, to unfetter the economy, and to limit government intrusion.

It is an irony of our checks and balances that an elected president, with majorities in both branches of Congress, still does not govern without compromise with hundreds of representative and senators.

Trump’s task is now further complicated because for the first time in U.S. history he is also the daily target of a systemic attack by legions of cherry-picked, lower-court, liberal federal district judges, who find their five-minutes of liberal fame, by issuing fiats not for their regional jurisdictions, but for all 340 million Americans everywhere.

Musk, on the other hand, as the richest man in the world and CEO of his companies, can rule by directives, in a way a president, the most powerful man in the world, simply cannot. What the White House may have wanted in the bill, and what they could reasonably achieve were not synonymous.

Moreover, Musk knows that his nemesis is the left, not MAGA, much less Trump.

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