The Strange Futility of the Musk-Trump Feud

The strange futility of the Musk-Trump feud

The Trump-Musk spat is not the sign of a new split between oligarchs and populists, as some have claimed – but of the growing pains involved in reassembling this old coalition.  Keeping capitalism going under mass suffrage is no small feat, and capitalists used to be much shrewder in how they went about it. Electorates wouldn’t reliably go for laissez-faire – except after a crisis – and so the only option for the capitalists was to hitch themsel…

Trump, Musk and what populists need to do next

Musk’s ruthless self-interest was always a threat to the 21st century’s democratic revolt.