I'll concede that I've not been the world's biggest fan of Musk. I didn't like how he seemingly acted reckless with Tesla stock and crypto currencies. He seemed as much a troll as innovative CEO, despite his very real accomplishments.
While I can safely say I do not have a man-crush now, I have to admit that this was an act of heroism on his part. He may very well lose billions on this scheme, but the greater good prevails.
This will go down as a turning point. The left has been very smug, despite the profoundly unpopular administration in DC (which is more unpopular than Trump's or anyone's since they started measuring it with Truman). Why such complacency? Because of a lot of reasons, not least of which was the complete lock they had on the top five social media. In the rare instances where the media doesn't do its job and bury news that puts the left in a bad light, the left could count on social media to bury it and ban those responsible for it.
Twitter is ranked only 4th among the Big Five of social media (Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok), but its influence is outsized; in many regards it is the most critical social media platform in terms of affecting policy.
Musk has singlehandedly blown a hole in the wall big enough to drive a tank through. Suddenly, the left's lock on social media looks a lot more tenuous than it did two weeks ago.
And the left has nobody to blame but itself for this mess it is in now (although they will literally blame everybody else)
Coming on the heels of the rebuke to Disney, April 2022 may stand as the moment Woke America reached its zenith. The decline and fall usually follows such high points.
It might have eventually happened without Musk, but time was not on the non-woke side, and Musk achieved in a few days what it might have taken years for lesser mortals to accomplish.
Watching the left's collective head explode has been hilarious. Any other non-woke multi-billionaires out there who can get a few jobs done for the hoi polloi?
Musk is still as much a troll as anything or anyone else, but I'm gladdened to see that he puts his money where his trolling is.