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Elon Musk and the art of flattery

Flattery will get you everywhere, as the sycophants that surround Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping know. Which makes Elon Musk’s defection rather interesting. Trump’s policies meant that Musk simply could not flatter him any more just to satisfy his inexhaustible self-love, which, says the Greek essayist, biographer and diplomat Plutarch (d. c. AD 120), is what gives the kolax (“flatterer”) his foothold: the person he wis…

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The Spectator World broke the news in United Kingdom on Tuesday, July 15, 2025.
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